{"id":262637,"date":"2023-10-03T20:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=262637"},"modified":"2023-10-03T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:13:00","slug":"a-plan-for-the-winter-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-plan-for-the-winter-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"A plan for the winter crop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:<\/strong> This post is created based on the article \u2018A plan for the winter crop\u2019,<\/strong> published in The Indian Express<\/strong> on 3rd<\/sup> October, 2023.<\/p>\n

Syllabus Topic:<\/strong> GS Paper 3, Agriculture<\/p>\n

News: The Indian monsoon’s deficit has led to variations in crop cultivation. Now the issue at hand is the government approach towards balancing the price of agri-commodities.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges in front of agriculture sector?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Indian monsoon for the year ended with a 5.6% deficit compared to the long-period average.<\/p>\n

However, the area planted under paddy and sugarcane has increased, while the area under pulses, especially arhar, has decreased.<\/p>\n

The area under arhar saw a 4.9% fall, leading to a price inflation of 32% in August.<\/p>\n

What are the steps that government is considering?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To control the rising tur prices, government is considering importing a million tonnes from African nations and Myanmar.<\/p>\n

TO tackle the threats from heat waves, government departments have released heat-resistant wheat varieties.<\/p>\n

What are the steps taken by the government and what are the issues associated with it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Faulty government estimates: <\/strong>There’s a significant gap between the government’s wheat production estimates and trade estimates, leading to inflationary market expectations.<\/p>\n

Regulating the prices by offloading:<\/strong> The FCI sold wheat below its economic cost to match the market prices with the MSP. It resulted in a loss for wheat farmers.<\/p>\n

While the poor section of the country is benefitted by large-scale distribution of free wheat and rice under the PDS. The government’s approach of controlling market price seems to favor urban middle-class consumers over producers,<\/p>\n

Export bans: <\/strong>To prevent further price hikes, an export ban on wheat was placed in May 2022. Yet, inflation kept increasing, reaching 25% in January 2023.<\/p>\n

What steps should be taken?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

First,<\/strong> government should upgrade the traditional production estimate system to a more technologically advanced one.<\/p>\n

The system should be able to effectively monitor crop progress, settle insurance claims, and provide timely data to the government.<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> shift from a purely “production-centric” approach to a more holistic “food systems” approach in agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This post is created based on the article \u2018A plan for the winter crop\u2019, published in The Indian Express on 3rd October, 2023. Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 3, Agriculture News: The Indian monsoon’s deficit has led to variations in crop cultivation. Now the issue at hand is the government approach towards balancing the price… Continue reading A plan for the winter crop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[218,216,10500],"class_list":["post-262637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-agriculture","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}