Read the passage given below and answer the following questions from 1 to 4.
The revolutionary, 'Billion-litre idea' and execution of the world's largest dairy-agricultural development programme, 'Operation Flood' transformed India from a nation with potential in the dairy industry to a nation with massive production of milk and dairy products.
Operation Flood is the programme initiated by the National Dairy Development Board to speed up "the White Revolution." It created a national milk grid linking producers throughout India with consumers in over 700 towns and cities, reducing seasonal and regional price variations while ensuring that the producer gets a major share of the price, consumers pay, by cutting out middlemen.
The bedrock of Operation Flood that made the White Revolution a success, was village milk producers' cooperatives, which procured milk and provided inputs and services, making mode management and technology available to members.
- Operation Flood was initiated in:
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967
- 1968
- Operation Flood is based on the model of....................?
- cooperative marketing
- regulated marketing
- Both [a] and [b]
- None of the above
- Operation Flood was first commenced in..............?
- Gujarat
- Andhra Pradesh
- Uttar Pradesh
- Bihar
- Operation Flood is an example of............. of productive activity in the rural areas.
- centralisation
- diversification
- Both [a] and [b]
- None of the above