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How will you explain the irony of poor adoption of millet crops despite their multifarious advantages? Also, recommend measures to curb this anomaly. (15 marks, 250 words)
Main Body
Basic support: Infrastructure, Power line. Safety concerns not ignored - Efficiency and cost effectiveness should be balanced (eg Recent wreckage of bridge in Bhagalpur). Backlash on safety harms life of citizens and cause long term issues. Reduced trustlow uptake of infrastructure (eg River fault). Thus actions won't be economically viable. Reflect cost of construction and then demolition (eg Karnataka death). Safely concerns can be automatically addressed by reducing scope of every capitalism as often sent seeking leads to quality compromise to safeguard profit better (social audit) can be undertaken
United Nations has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets. Budget 2023 also declared them as 'Shri-Anna' and established a Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad. Multifarious Advantages of Millet: Environmental - Require low fertilises uptake and drought resistant hardy crops requiring less groundwater/irrigation. Economic - Reduce input needs for farmers, can ensure dryland farming (>50% of India's net sown area). Nutritional - Coarse grainsnutrifact is both micro and macronutrients. Irony of Adoption: Demand Side issues - Lack of preference due to coarse nature, Rising urban population and preferences towards jast food, low millet based cafe or restaurant undertaking it. Supply side issues - Lack of guaranteed procurement under MSP despite high support price, low yield of millet compared to wheat price, lack of expertise in all facets of millet production. Policy side issues - loss research on millets by ICAR
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Diagram showing factors affecting millet adoption with branches for demand, supply, and support factors
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- Balances multiple perspectives (safety vs efficiency)
- Provides real examples (Bhagalpur bridge)
- Addresses systemic issues (reduced trust, uptake)
- Uses recent government initiatives
- Comprehensive coverage of advantages
- Structured analysis with demand, supply, policy dimensions
Topper
AKANSH DHULL
AIR 32025
Subject & Paper
GS2GS2
Topic
Government Policies and Interventions
Design, Implementation and Issues
Infrastructure Projects and Safety Concerns
Writing Stats
234
Total words
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analytical
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