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UPSC 2023 GS-III · 10 marks · 150 words

How does e-Technology help farmers in production and marketing of agricultural produce? Explain it.

What “Explain” demands

set out how or why something works, with the mechanism made explicit.

The characteristic failure: stating that it works without showing how.

What a top answer must contain

These are the checkable specifics from the marking standard for this question — the actual case, committee, datum or thinker, not an instruction to “give examples”.

  • Production: soil-health-card digitisation, Kisan Suvidha/Meghdoot advisories, precision inputs (drone spraying under Kisan Drones), AI pest alerts (e.g. cotton pink bollworm)
  • Marketing: e-NAM (1,300+ mandis integrated), FPO commerce on ONDC, Agmarknet price discovery, negotiable e-warehouse receipts
  • Credit-insurance rails: KCC digitisation, PMFBY tech-based yield estimation (satellite + smartphone CCE)
  • Honest constraint: last-mile digital divide and assaying gaps keeping e-NAM trades intra-mandi

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