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Clean Plant Programme gaining momentum

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: Clean Plant Programme gaining momentum (GS3 · Agriculture, 21 September 2025)

What happened

  • The Clean Plant Programme, approved by Cabinet on 9 August 2024, aims to give farmers virus-free planting material [PIB].
  • The National Horticulture Board is the implementing agency [PIB].

Background

  • Systemic pathogens, mainly viruses, cause big yield losses and are hard to manage once symptoms appear [PIB].

Why it matters

  • Clean stock at the start is cheaper than treatment later, especially in fruit orchards.

How to use this in Mains

GS-III Agriculture: cropping, MSP, PDS, food processing, land reforms

  1. As per PIB (2025-09-21): the Clean Plant Programme, approved by Cabinet on 9 August 2024, aims to give farmers virus-free planting material.
  2. Clean stock at the start is cheaper than treatment later, especially in fruit orchards.
Quotable data point

The Clean Plant Programme, approved by Cabinet on 9 August 2024, aims to give farmers virus-free planting material.

PIB: Clean Plant Programme, 21 Sep 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: CPP.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

Clean Plant Programme is implemented by

Answer (b) & explanation

PIB.

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Official source: PIB: Clean Plant Programme, 21 Sep 2025

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