Current context: Union Minister of Food Processing Industries, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, launched the Market Intelligence and Early Warning System (MIEWS) Web Portal on 26th February 2020.
a. Pulses, Onion and Cardamom
b. Onion, Tomato and Potato
c. Tomato, Onion and Potato
d. Cardamom, Onion and Tomato
- The MIEWS Dashboard and Portal of MoFPI is a ‘first-of-its-kind’ platform for:
- ‘Real-time monitoring’ of prices of tomato, onion and potato (TOP)
- Generating alerts for intervention under the terms of the Operation Greens(OG) scheme
- A new Scheme “Operation Greens” was announced on the line of “Operation Flood”, in the budget speech of Union Budget 2018-19, with an outlay of Rs.500 crores.
- The Scheme “Operation Greens” was formulated to promote Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs), agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional management.
- Accordingly, the Ministry has formulated a scheme for integrated development of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) value chain.
- The portal would disseminate all relevant information related to TOP crops such as Prices and Arrivals, Imports and Exports, Crop Calendars, etc. in an easy to use visual format.
- The salient features of the MIEWS portal include:
- low price and high price alerts would be indicated in the dashboard
- price forecasts for 3 months forward would be provided on the portal
- Information about Prices and arrivals of TOP crops across the country
- Area, Yield and Production of TOP crops
- Crop Agronomy and Trade Profile (of TOP crops)
Question:
Q.1 The Market Intelligence and Early Warning System (MIEWS) Web Portal is launched by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries for integrated development of ______________________ value chain.a. Pulses, Onion and Cardamom
b. Onion, Tomato and Potato
c. Tomato, Onion and Potato
d. Cardamom, Onion and Tomato