With reference to lsquo Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion rsqu...........

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With reference to ‘Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion’, which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies, and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in an integrated manner, with cluster approach.

2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger stake in this scheme.

3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro-irrigation equipment.

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Explanation:

Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion is under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana launched in 2011-12.

The scheme aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies in an integrated manner with visible impact to catalyze increased production of millets in the country.

Certain districts with large crop area under millets but with productivity less than that of the National Average Yield could be taken up for active promotion of production technologies through block demonstrations.

Under the scheme Technology demonstration kits are provided free of cost for critical inputs of nutrients and plant protection measures comprising of micro-nutrients, but it do not include micro-irrigation equipments.