Food and Nutrition- ICAR JRF/SRF 2024

• Match Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Objectives:
• Restored Reference Table:

| List-I (SDG) | List-II (Objective) |
| :--- | :--- |
| (A) Goal 3 | (II) Good Health and Well-being |
| (B) Goal 4 | (III) Quality Education |
| (C) Goal 5 | (IV) Gender Equality |
| (D) Goal 7 | (I) Affordable and Clean Energy |

• United Nations 2030 Agenda Framework:
• SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages $\implies$ (A) $\rightarrow$ (II).
• SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities $\implies$ (B) $\rightarrow$ (III).
• SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls $\implies$ (C) $\rightarrow$ (IV).
• SDG 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all $\implies$ (D) $\rightarrow$ (I).
• Conclusion: (A) - (II), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D) - (I) (Option 3).

Correct option: (3) (A) - (II), (B) - (Il), (C) - (IV), (DB) - (1)

• Role of Subject Matter Specialists in Agricultural Extension:
• Assertion (A): Extension professionals should not involve trained specialists in their work. $\implies$ False.
• Modern extension delivery relies on close collaboration with Subject Matter Specialists (SMS) to diagnose emerging pest outbreaks, interpret complex soil health analyses, and transfer intricate scientific recommendations to farmers.
• Reason (R): It is very important for extension professionals to keep themselves abreast with all the latest findings of research and development. $\implies$ True.
• Professional extension agents must continuously update their scientific knowledge to maintain credibility and effectively solve farm-level problems.
• Conclusion: (A) is false but (R) is true (Option 4).

Correct option: (4) (A) is false but (R) is true.

• Methodological Objectives of the Case-Study Method:
• Statement (I): The purpose of case-study is to clarify certain issues and present a living example of how those concepts apply. $\implies$ Correct.
• In educational and management training, a case study provides an authentic real-life contextual narrative illustrating how theoretical principles, managerial dilemmas, and solutions operate in practical reality.
• Statement (II): The purpose of case study is to bring out hidden attitudes and unexpressed feelings before the group. $\implies$ Incorrect.
• Eliciting unexpressed personal emotions and hidden attitudes is the specific objective of sensitivity training, projective techniques, or sociodrama/role-playing, not the analytical cognitive case study method.
• Conclusion: Statement (I) is correct but Statement (II) is incorrect (Option 3).