What was launched in 2007 by the Indian government to sustain productivity gains?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → National Food Security Mission
The National Food Security Mission (NFSM) was launched by the Government of India in October 2007, on a resolution of the National Development Council. Its aim was to raise the production of rice, wheat and pulses by bringing more land under these crops and raising their yields in the districts where they were low, and to keep these productivity gains going. The target was an extra 20 million tonnes of food grains (10 of rice, 8 of wheat and 2 of pulses) by the end of the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2011-12). Coarse cereals and other crops were added to the mission later.