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What are the different categories under priority sector?

Priority Sector includes the following categories:

(i) Agriculture
(ii) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(iii) Export Credit
(iv) Education
(v) Housing
(vi) Social Infrastructure
(vii) Renewable Energy
(viii) Others


✅What is included under Weaker Sections under priority sector?

Priority sector loans to the following borrowers are eligible to be considered under Weaker Sections category:-

🔘No.Category🔘

✅1. Small and Marginal Farmers

✅2. Artisans, village and cottage industries where individual credit limits do not exceed ₹ 0.1 million

✅3. Beneficiaries under Government Sponsored Schemes such as National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) and Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS)

✅4. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

✅5. Beneficiaries of Differential Rate of Interest (DRI) scheme

✅6. Self Help Groups

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✅7. Distressed farmers indebted to non-institutional lenders

✅8. Distressed persons other than farmers, with loan amount not exceeding ₹ 0.1 million per borrower to prepay their debt to non-institutional lenders

✅9. Individual women beneficiaries up to ₹ 0.1 million per borrower

✅10. Persons with disabilities

✅11. Overdraft limit to PMJDY account holder upto ₹ 10,000/- with age limit of 18-65 years.

✅12. Minority communities as may be notified by Government of India from time to time.

🔘 INSECTICIDES 🔘

✅The Chemical or poison used to kill the insect is known as Insecticide.

✅This Insecticide Act was enacted on 2nd September 1968 by Govt. of India to regulate the use, production, sale, import, transportation and distribution of insecticides.

🔘 Mode of Action of Insecticides 🔘 - 4 Types

☑️1. Systemic poison: Such type of chemicals or poisons are absorbed into plants and translocated to whole plant system internally. Such poisons are translocated and concentrated more in the aerial part of plant. Insect Pest starts dying when it sucks the affected plant juice. This poison affects the metabolism of sucking insect pests. It means systemic insecticides are used to control sucking pests, e.g. Dicrotophos, Rogor, Dimethoate, Metasystox and Systox ( Methyl demeton and demeton), Monocrotophos (Nuvacron), Phosphomidon (Dimecron), Aldicarb (Temik), Carbofuran (Furadan), Thimet (Phorate), Thionazin (Zinophos) etc.

☑️2. Contact poison: The poison brings about death of the insect pest by means of contact, is called contact poison. When such chemical comes in contact with the pest, it penetrates into the body through the vulnerable sites, viz. sutures, trachea, e.g. Malathion, Monocrotophos, Diazinon, Thiodan, carboryl, Baygon etc.

☑️3. Stomach poison: Such chemical causes the death of insect only when the insect feeds on the treated plant. This poison acts on the digestive system of insect when ingested. Stomach poison is used mainly to control chewing type insects, e.g. Heptachlor, Endosulfan (Thiodan), Chlordane, DDT, Aldrin, Quinolphos etc.

☑️4. Fumigant: Such chemical enters in gaseous form through respiratory system (trachea) and kills the pest. It is used to control all types of insects irrespective of its feeding habits, e.g. Aluminium phosphide.

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