Millet

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to declare 2023 as the International Year of Millets. 

Agroforestry

• known as 'social forestry'
• aims at achieving a more ecologically diverse and socially productive output from the land than is possible through conventional agriculture

Rice

• Temperature: 22-32 C
• Rainfall: 150-300  cm
• Soil: Deep clayey and loamy

Recent News

For Addition

• Fortified Rice
• System Of Rice intensification (SRI)

Among the following crops, which one is the most important anthropogenic source of both methane and nitrous oxide? 

(a) Cotton 

(b) Rice 

(c) Sugarcane

(d) Wheat

System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

• First developed in Madagascar in the 1980s and since then several countries in the world practicing it.
• India

Benefits

• to save 15 to 20 % improve groundwater, improve rice productivity.
• all types of soil including less fertile soil 

Direct Seeding of Rice (DSR)

• only for mid to heavy textured soils

Source: The Indian Express

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)

• (PMFBY) scheme was launched in India by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, New Delhi from the Kharif 2016 season onwards.

Objective

• Providing financial support to farmers suffering crop loss/damage arising out of unforeseen events
• Stabilizing the income of farmers to ensure their continuance in farming.
• Encouraging farmers to adopt innovative and modern agricultural practices
• Ensuring the flow of credit to the agriculture sector which will contribute to food security, crop diversification, and enhancing growth and competitiveness of the agriculture sector besides protecting farmers from production risks.

Coverage of Crops

• Food crops (Cereals, Millets and Pulses),
• Oilseeds
• Annual Commercial / Annual Horticultural crops

Source:

• Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)
• https://twitter.com/pmfby

Wheat

• Rabi Crop

Fortified rice

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) defines fortification as “deliberately increasing the content of essential micronutrients in a food so as to improve the nutritional quality of food and to provide public health benefits with minimal risk to health”.

Various technologies are available to add micronutrients to regular rice, such as coating, dusting, and ‘extrusion’.

• fortified rice kernels (FRKs)
• FRK has a shelf life of at least 12 months

Fortified rice will be packed in jute bags with the logo (‘+F’) and the line “Fortified with Iron, Folic Acid, and Vitamin B12”.

various government schemes

• public distribution system (PDS)
• midday meals in schools

Source:

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-is-fortified-rice-how-is-it-prepared-7860432/