With references to organic farming in India, consider the following statements: 1. The National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) is operated under the guidelines and directions of the Union ministry of Rural Development. 2. The Agricultural and Pro

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Q: 85 (IAS/2018)
 With references to organic farming in India, consider the following statements:
1. The National Programme for Organic Production’ (NPOP) is operated under the guidelines and directions of the Union ministry of Rural Development.
2. ‘The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority’ (APEDA), functions the Secretariat for the implementation of NPOP.
3. Sikkim has become India’s first fully organic State.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

question_subject: 

Economics

question_exam: 

IAS

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Option-1 posits that the `National Programme for Organic Production’ (NPOP) is run under the guidelines of the Union Ministry of Rural Development. However, this is inaccurate. The NPOP is actually governed by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which is why option-1 is incorrect.

Option-2 maintains that `The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority` (APEDA) acts as the Secretariat for the implementation of NPOP and that Sikkim is India`s first fully organic State. Both these statements are correct. APEDA is responsible for promoting the export of agricultural and processed food products, including organic products. Furthermore, Sikkim was officially declared as India`s first fully organic state in 2016.

Option-3 states that only statement 3, which is about Sikkim being India’s first fully organic state, is correct. This assertion is half correct, but misses out the fact that APEDA functions as the Secretariat for NPOP, which is also correct.

Option-4, which indicates that all the mentioned statements are correct, is clearly incorrect as the first statement is false, as explained earlier.

The correct answer, therefore, is Option-2. It includes both verified facts about APEDA`s role