UPPCS GS-V · 8 marks · 125 words
Outline the key features of Uttar Pradesh's agricultural diversification policy.
उत्तर प्रदेश की कृषि-विविधीकरण नीति की प्रमुख विशेषताओं की रूपरेखा प्रस्तुत कीजिए।
What “Outline” demands
give the key features concisely and in a clear order, covering breadth rather than depth.
The characteristic failure: going deep on one feature and omitting the rest.
What a top answer must contain
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- Shift from the wheat–paddy–sugarcane monoculture towards horticulture, pulses, oilseeds, millets, dairy, fisheries and agroforestry — the core meaning of diversification in UP's policy documents
- UP Diversified Agriculture Support Project (UPDASP), the World Bank-aided project begun 1998 and continued as the Pro-Poor UPDASP, as the institutional precursor of the current diversification push
- UP Agriculture Export Policy 2019, linked to the One District One Product (ODOP) programme launched in 2018, promoting district-specific produce (Malihabad dasheri mango, Kalanamak rice of Siddharthnagar, Varanasi langda)
- Horticulture push under the centrally sponsored Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) and RKVY-RAFTAAR; UP is India's largest potato producer
- UP Millet Revival Programme / Shree Anna promotion from 2023-24 (International Year of Millets) covering bajra, jowar, sanwa and kodo in Bundelkhand and eastern UP
- Nand Baba Milk Mission (2022-23) for dairy diversification; UP is India's largest milk-producing state
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