Agriculture and Industry: Practice MCQs with Notes

Notes and 20 practice MCQs on Agriculture and Industry for OPSC ASO, OAS, OSSC and OSSSC.

Agriculture

Green Revolution (1960s): HYV seeds, fertilisers, irrigation — M. S. Swaminathan (father in India), Norman Borlaug (world); mainly wheat; Punjab, Haryana.
Revolutions: White (milk — Verghese Kurien, Operation Flood 1970), Blue (fish), Yellow (oilseeds), Golden (horticulture, honey), Pink (onion/meat), Silver (eggs), Round (potato).
MSP announced by government on CACP recommendation for 22 crops. FCI (1965) procures and stores.
Schemes: PM-KISAN, PM Fasal Bima Yojana (2016), Soil Health Card (2015), e-NAM (2016), PMKSY ("Per Drop More Crop").

Industrial Policy Resolutions: 1948, 1956 (Mahalanobis; public sector commanding heights), 1991 (New Industrial Policy — licensing abolished except a few).
Eight core industries (Index of Eight Core Industries; largest weight refinery products): coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement, electricity.
IIP published by NSO. MSME classification by investment and turnover (2020). Navratna, Maharatna PSUs.
Odisha: steel (RSP Rourkela — first public sector steel plant with German help), NALCO, aluminium; Paradip port.

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