Arrange the following post-independence developments in Indian Agriculture in chronological order.
(A) Intensive Agricultural District Programme
(B) Green Revolution
(C) National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
(D) Agro-climatic Planning
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A), (B), (D), (C)
(A) Intensive Agricultural District Programme — first. It was launched when farm production stagnated in the late 1950s.
(B) Green Revolution — second. High yielding seeds came in the mid-1960s, and the quick rise in foodgrain output was called the Green Revolution.
(D) Agro-climatic Planning — third. The Planning Commission started it in 1988.
(C) National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture — last. It belongs to the period after liberalisation in the 1990s.
Note 1: The given answer is as per the official NTA Answer Key. The book gives no year for the Intensive Agricultural District Programme or the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture. It describes the four in this order: the late-1950s problem, the mid-1960s new seeds, 1988, and the period after the 1990s.
Note 2: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2024 on 17-05-2024 (Slot 1).
NCERT (2026-27): “Agricultural Development in India … Initially, this strategy helped in increasing foodgrains production. But agricultural production stagnated during late –1950s. To overcome this problem, Intensive Agricultural District Programme (IADP) and Intensive Agricultural Area Programme (IAAP) were launched.” “New seed varieties of wheat (Mexico) and rice (Philippines) known as high yielding varieties (HYVs) were available for cultivation by mid-1960s. … This spurt of agricultural growth came to be known as ‘Green Revolution’.” “The Planning Commission of India focused its attention on the problems of agriculture in rainfed areas in 1980s. It initiated agro-climatic planning in 1988 to induce regionally balanced agricultural development in the country.” “Initiation of the policy of liberalisation and free market economy in 1990s influenced the course of development of Indian agriculture.”
Box: National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) |
