AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PROCESSING
- Major crops-cropping patterns in various parts of the country,
- Different types of irrigation and irrigation systems storage,
- Transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints;
- e-technology in the aid of farmers
- Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices;
- Public Distribution System- objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping;
- issues of buffer stocks and food security;
- Technology missions;
- economics of animal-rearing.
- Food processing and related industries in India- scope’ and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements,
- supply chain management.
- Land reforms in India.
