Question

New agriculture policy was started in the year ______.
a. 2000
b. 2001
c. 2005
d. 2010

Answer 1

Hint:
 The NDA government formulated the new agriculture policy in the parliament under the provision of WTO.

Complete solution:
 New agriculture policy was started in the year 2000. The major reason for designing an Agricultural policy by the government is for increasing agricultural production and productivity which inturn proves as a benefactor in raising the levels of income and a standard of living for farmers. In India the major problems faced by the agricultural sector are related to low value agriculture, poor cost benefit ratio, insignificant progress of farming and no self help institutions. For completing these issues a new Agricultural Policy was formed. Some of the objective of formation of agricultural policy are defined below -

- Modernising agricultural sector - There was a need of modernisation of agricultural sector as newer tools and technologies would have provided farmers with better output in the crops
- Agricultural Research and training - another aspect of the policy was the training and education of farmers about the usage of upcoming Technologies and how scientific methods can help them grow and protect their field.
- Protect the interest of farmers - Due to less education, knowledge and resources farmers of our country are often poor as their interests are usually sabotaged for whatever reasons. So to get over problems like these, there was the need of abolishing intermediaries through land Reforms, expanding institutional credit support etc.
- Keeping the Environment Degradation - Another objective of this policy was to keep a check on environment
- The Policy was also said to remove the bureaucratic obstacles that farmers face and also to develop such Institutions through which they can help themselves.

Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note:
During that time the aim of the Policy was to increase agricultural growth to over 4% by annum by the year 2005. The growth was achieved by a combination of certain factors which included structural institutional agronomic environmental economics and some reforms on the tax system.