UPSC Prelims 2024— Question 76

The correct answer is option (A). The 100 Million Farmers platform is associated with the transition toward food and water systems that are net-zero, nature-positive and resilient for farmers. The other descriptions refer to unrelated livestock networks, blockchain trading platforms or market-access organisational initiatives. The key to this question is to distinguish the exact constitutional provision, factual association, scientific principle, or current-affairs detail being tested from statements that are partly true but incomplete or incorrectly framed. UPSC often makes the distractors plausible by changing one institutional role, date, classification, geographic association, or causal relationship. Option A — “It is a platform for accelerating the transition towards food and water systems that are net-zero (carbon), nature-positive and that aims to increase farmer resilience.” is correct. It matches the established fact described above and gives the complete combination or identification required by the question. Option B — “It is an international alliance and a network of individuals and farming organisations interested in supporting and strengthening the development of organic animal husbandry.” is incorrect. It does not match the established fact or contains the incorrect combination, institution, relationship, classification, or proposition identified in the explanation above. Choosing it would therefore introduce a factual error or omit a necessary element. Option C — “It is a digital platform fully integrated with service providers and built on blockchain that lets buyers, sellers and third parties trade fertilizers quickly and securely.” is incorrect. It does not match the established fact or contains the incorrect combination, institution, relationship, classification, or proposition identified in the explanation above. Choosing it would therefore introduce a factual error or omit a necessary element. Option D — “It is a platform with the mission of encouraging farmers to form Farmer Producer Organisations or Agribusiness Consortiums, thus facilitating access to global open markets to sell their products.” is incorrect. It does not match the established fact or contains the incorrect combination, institution, relationship, classification, or proposition identified in the explanation above. Choosing it would therefore introduce a factual error or omit a necessary element. For examination purposes, the safest approach is to verify each statement independently before looking at the answer-code combination. This is particularly important in statement-based questions, because one false clause makes an entire combination wrong. In factual questions, compare the defining characteristic asked in the stem with each alternative rather than relying on superficial familiarity. The answer recorded here follows the verified Set C key used for this database.