Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Agricultural marketing includes the grading and packaging of agricultural commodities.
Statement II: Under Operation Flood, farmers pool their milk according to different grading based on quality.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Statement I: Agricultural marketing includes the grading and packaging of agricultural commodities. — True. Agricultural marketing covers every step from assembling the produce to its distribution, and grading and packaging are among them.
Statement II: Under Operation Flood, farmers pool their milk according to different grading based on quality. — True. The graded milk is then processed and marketed to urban centres through cooperatives.
NCERT (2026-27): “5.4 Agricultural Market System … The mechanism through which these goods reach different places depends on the market channels. Agricultural marketing is a process that involves the assembling, storage, processing, transportation, packaging, grading and distribution of different agricultural commodities across the country. …” “… This can be attributed mainly to the successful implementation of ‘Operation Flood’. It is a system whereby all the farmers can pool their milk produced according to different grading (based on quality), processed and marketed to urban centres through cooperatives. In this system the farmers are assured of a fair price and income from the supply of milk to urban markets. …” |