This document appears to be a short quiz about farm reforms in India. It contains 10 multiple choice questions about various agricultural policies and programs in India's history, including: price controls introduced under Alauddin Khalji, establishment of the first agricultural produce market committee in Hyderabad in 1886, the PL480 food aid program from the US, the introduction of minimum support prices after the green revolution, farm loan programs introduced under Muhammad Tughlaq and later waived by Firuz Shah, and the Rythu Bandhu investment support scheme in Telangana as an alternative to loan waivers. The quiz also mentions the Parthenium weed introduced from contaminated US wheat imports and the cooperative dairy farming industry started in India.

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2. Which agri-market regime ended in
late 60s was introduced by Alauddin
Khalji after he started paying soldiers
in cash to sustain the huge army
employed to restrict the onslaught of
Mongols?
Q No. 1

3. Answer
Fixing or controlling the prices of agri
products by government

4. What first of its kind was established in the
princely state of Hyderabad in 1886 to
make the cheaper raw cotton available to
the mills of Manchester?
Q No. 2

5. Answer
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Agricultural

6. First such program was undertaken in 1812, after an
earthquake in Venezuela. The policy was drafted as an
official act in 1950 as P.L.480(public law) by Gwynn
Garnett after his visit to India in 1950. What is PL480
about? Or how do we popularly know it?
Q No. 3

7. Answer
Food for peace program
US’s export of surplus food items to
the poorer nations across the globe

8. Lyndon B. Johnson has limited the aid under PL480 to pressure
Indian govt to tone down its criticism on Vietnam war. This move
forced us to quickly adopt green revolution. The sudden surge in
agricultural output has led the Govt to end the price control
regime and adopt what to protect the farmers from price
fluctuations?
Q No. 4

9. Answer
Minimum Support Price (MSP)

10. One of the side effects of PL480 is the non-native invasive
species of Parthenium hysterophorus. Seeds of this plant
landed in India due to the unchecked adulterated wheat
imports from the US. By what name people started to refer the
plant in India, as they associated it to the then people in
power?
Q No. 5

11. Answer
Congress Grass

12. This trading portal by the
Govt. Of India for the farmers
is named after which word
for gift in Arabic?
Q No. 6

13. Answer
Electronic National Agriculture
Market(eNAM) | From Inam

14. After returning from Daultabad, Muhammad Thuglaq had
set up Diwan-i-amir-i-kohi to carefully fund and guide
the farmers of Doab region on where to invest and what
to sow. Although the scheme failed because of corrupt
officials, what first in India was implemented under this
scheme?
Q No. 7

15. Answer
Farm loans

16. Even before the scheme took off, Md Tughlaq died and
Firuz Shah rose to power. Even though the policy
advocated by Muhammed Tughlaq continued, which
fiscally straining scheme was implemented by Firuz to
erase the failures of previous ruler?
Hint: In modern India, this was first implemented in 1990
Q No. 8

17. Answer
Farm Loan Waiver

18. While most economists suggest against the populist loan
waivers, a new positive tide has started in 2018 after the
implementation of Rythu Bandhu scheme in Telangana, this
was later adopted by other states and central government.
How is this scheme different from loan waiver?
Q No. 9

19. Answer
Farmer's Investment Support
Government deposits an amount into farmers account before the start
of crop season, which can be used as an investment.

20. The person in circle holds a masters
in Metallurgy and a minor in nuclear
physics. However, he is credited for
creating which largest self sustaining
industry in India, also providing the
largest rural employment without
any government involvement?
Q No. 10

21. Answer
Cooperative Dairy Farming

22. Thank You!
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