QUESTION 14
GS3
15 marks
How has the emphasis on certain crops brought about changes in cropping patterns in recent past? Elaborate the emphasis on millets production and consumption.
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11 min
250 words
What the examiner wants
Explain how policy focus on some crops changed cropping patterns and describe the push for millets.
ElaborateAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Shift: Green Revolution, MSP and procurement for rice and wheat moved land away from millets and pulses; paddy in Punjab-Haryana≈50 words
- 2Costs: groundwater depletion, stubble burning, nutrition loss, soil health≈50 words
- 3Millet push: renamed nutri-cereals, 2018 National Year of Millets, inclusion in PDS and mid-day meals, state missions≈50 words
- 4Benefits: climate resilience, low water need, nutrition; barriers: processing, demand, MSP procurement≈50 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Cropping pattern change and causesConsequencesMillet emphasis (production and consumption)ChallengesConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Only praising millets, without explaining the earlier shift
- Ignoring consumption measures
Draw this
- Water use comparison: paddy vs millets per kg
Value addition
- PolicyMillets were notified as 'Nutri-Cereals' in April 2018 and 2018 was observed as National Year of Millets.Ministry of Agriculture, 2018
- ExampleOdisha Millet Mission (2017) supports millet farming and inclusion in PDS.Government of Odisha
- FactAt India's proposal, the UN declared 2023 the International Year of Millets.UN General Assembly, 2021
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 29 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 7 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 9 ↗Same syllabus reference
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