{"id":125177,"date":"2021-10-28T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T09:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=125177"},"modified":"2021-10-28T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T09:24:21","slug":"agribusiness-development-in-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/agribusiness-development-in-maharashtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Agribusiness development in Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : For which state has ADB and India signed an agribusiness development loan agreement ?<\/strong><br>a. Maharashtra<br>b. Madhya Pradesh<br>c. UP<br>d. Karnataka<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ADB and India recently(October 2021) signed an agribusiness development loan agreement for the state of Maharashtra.<br><strong>Key points of the loan agreement &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Objective &#8212; to promote agribusiness network to boost farm incomes and reduce food losses in the State of Maharashtra<\/li><li>Loan amount &#8212; 100 million dollar<\/li><li>Significance &#8212; Though Maharashtra produces 11% and 6% of India\u2019s fruit and vegetable production, respectively, and accounts for about 8% of the country\u2019s floriculture exports, most smallholder farmers lack capital to scale up and do not have direct access to emerging high-value markets.<br>The project will help small and marginal farmers in Maharashtra improve their post-harvest and marketing capacity, reduce food losses, and increase incomes through access to finance, capacity building, and horticulture value chain infrastructure development.<\/li><li>Benefits &#8212;<br>The project will upgrade 16 existing post-harvest facilities and construct 3 new ones to provide individual farmers and FPOs clean, accessible, and sustainable crop storage and processing facilities.<br>It will also build the capacity of FPOs and VCOs on value chain acceleration and post-harvest handling and management, especially those owned and led by women. The project is expected to benefit 200,000 farmers.<br>ADB will provide a $500,000 technical assistance (TA) grant from its Technical Assistance Special Fund and $2 million from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction on a grant basis to improve market linkages for FPOs.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1767019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1767019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : For which state has ADB and India signed an agribusiness development loan agreement ?a. Maharashtrab. Madhya Pradeshc. UPd. KarnatakaAns. a.Related facts &#8212; ADB and India recently(October 2021) signed an agribusiness development loan agreement for the state of Maharashtra.Key points of the loan agreement &#8212; Objective &#8212; to promote agribusiness network to boost farm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":125178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-125177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125179,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125177\/revisions\/125179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}