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Mains Prelims

Q6 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2020 · Essay · 50 marks · ~700 words in the hall · 1 min read

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Indian Agriculture: Towards Evergreen Revolution.

Topic: Science, environment, economy and agriculture. Syllabus: Section B — Science, Environment and Technology; Economic sphere; Agriculture, Industry and Trade. Same official PYQ from year-wise 2020 and Science, environment, economy and agriculture.

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Essay map

Opening scene

Anecdote

A wheat belt still feeds a PDS. A well in that belt tastes of salt. Towards evergreen is that turn: keep the plate, change the method. 2020’s supply-chain shock made local food systems look wise. Evergreen is a well that survives the next wheat. Revolution is a change a small farmer could use, not a lab poster.

Keep this in every paragraph

One stand

Swaminathan’s word. Soil health card as a cousin, not a dump. Pulse, a horticulture, a FPO.

Turn each heading into a full paragraph in the hall

Heading map

What the line is asking

  • Towards: a direction, not arrival.
  • Evergreen: sustainability plus productivity.

Method

  • Less thirsty crop. A livestock mix. A market that is not only wheat-rice.

The counter

A sudden organic diktat that drops yield without a floor. Evergreen is sequenced.

One crop change

  • Soil card, a pulse, a water budget — the second green.
  • Seed, extension, a market that does not laugh at a smaller quintal.
  • Climate as the new pest.
  • Biotech without a trust is another compulsion.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

  • Evergreen / Swaminathan The named turn.
  • Soil health / drip Tools.
  • NFSA / MSP Plate politics still.
  • FPO A market cousin.
  • Monsoon / climate Why evergreen is not optional.

Last 8–10 lines in the exam

Last paragraph

Indian agriculture towards an evergreen revolution is a well and a plate together. The first green saved a hunger; the next must save an aquifer, a residue, a climate that no longer respects a calendar. One crop change that a small farmer could use is worth more than a catalogue of missions. Extension, a soil card that is read, a market for a pulse — these are the revolution. Do not romanticise a bullock or a gene. Close on a crop change that saved a well. That is evergreen — a life, not a slogan.

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  • Tone?

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  1. 2018 · Q6 · UPESS · 50 marks

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