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Questions
1) While India-Bangladesh ties have improved a lot, there are still many long-standing pending issues, which need to be resolved for a better relationship. Comment
2) What is Precision Farming? Discuss the benefits associated with precision farming.
Please review
Great answer! Very good and comprehensive content. Some suggestions
1. Some points under characteristics (like environ degradation) are more appropriate under benefits. Also add fertigation in farm practices.
2. You can make a small schematic showing challenges like high cost of tech, low awareness before mentioning Government initiatives.
Overall very impressive!
Are you asking to add demerits?
Not demerits, but challenges.
I was thinking to add but after reading question, get to know that only benefits are asked. Can we add challenges if they are not mentioned in the question?
Not required per se, but You generally give complete view. Not asking to elaborate, but very simple diagram only listing the challenges, so won’t take much time and space.
Thank you for the valuable suggestions. I will focus on the challenges.
Great answer! Content is good. But I think You can mention some more examples in the cooperation aspect like connectivity and trade etc.
In issues, also mention presence of support within Bangladesh to insurgency movements in the India’s North-east. Rest looks great!
Good attempt! Structure is good, you have mentioned the areas of cooperation and then discussed the challenges. Word limit seems to have been exceeded. So you can cut short the content a little e.g., just give broad mention of areas of co-op. In challenges issues like illegal migration, smuggling, persecution of minorities, support to insurgencies in the North-east can be added.
Thank so much for your review and i will added these points .😊
Good answer! Content can be improvised to some extent, both in coverage as well as presentation. e.g., You can mention first what all technologies are included in PA (include agricultural practices also like fertigation, drip irrigation etc.). Then You can shift to benefits. Also add points like environmental benefits like checking on soil degradation, impact on water bodies etc.
Can mention some measures by the Government in the concluding paragraph.
Great answer! You seem to have balanced both the positives and challenges in the relationship. One suggestion would be to title the 2nd part as pending issues (acc. to question statement) rather than what more needs to be done. These are two related but distinct aspects. (e.g., mega projects by India in Bangladesh is more appropriate under ‘what more needs to be done’ but not a issue per se). And You can classify them accordingly.
Thank you
Got every thing ,will improve
Excellent! Very nice diagram! You can also mention reducing harmful impact of agriculture on environment. Also, I feel the point of skilled labor can be excluded. Most labour in agriculture is un-skilled or at max semi-skilled. Agriculture is a sort of last resort of employment. Rest is awesome!
First answer writing please review 🙏🙂
Great! Can’t really believe this is the first answer. Proper structure and flow, comprehensive coverage of content, point-wise arguments with titles, legible writing easy to read, nice use of map.
Couple of suggestions:
– Since You have drawn the map, also show the approx location of teesta river.
– Use full expansion of acronyms at least once in the answer like LBA. Also LBA and land swap are same so no need to repeat, same thing with trade
– Add Maritime boundary settlement also.
– Also, I feel it would be better to write 1-2 lines in some points like BIMSTEC etc
Overall great answer!
I’ll work on it, thankyou so much for your review ☺
Please post answers for separate questions as separate comments.
Answer 1 looks great. Simple and to the point arguments. Content coverage is good in both +ves and -ves, Some suggestions
– Mention some projects under connectivity.
– Point related to illegal migrants/trade should come under issues.
– Add the point of maritime boundary settlement
– If possible, draw a rough map and show some features like teesta river, connectivity projects etc.
Overall nice!
Please provide the feedback in terms of marks or grades. It will be really helpful for us.
Thank you.
Answer 2 is good too. You began with proper definition and covered the benefits well.
Conclusion can be improved a bit. Mention that there are some challenges like high cost and lack of access to and knowledge about Tech. So Government can step and plug the gaps.
Good answer! Content can be restructured a bit.
– You can elaborate the points related to unresolved issues more, and if required show the benefits through the diagram.
– More content can be added in both +ves and -ves e.g. in +ves add resolved matters like land/maritime boundary dispute. In pending issues add illegal smuggling, terrorism etc.
– The map can be trimmed to depict only Bangladesh and NE region, will save time.
Thanks for mentorship 😊
Please Review sir/ma’am.