{"id":6755,"date":"2023-03-28T06:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:18:07","slug":"what-is-crisp-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-crisp-app\/","title":{"rendered":"What is CRISP App?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About CRISP App:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Comprehensive Rubber Information System Platform (CRISP) application<\/strong> has been developed by the Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII) in collaboration with the Digital University of Kerala.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It gives <strong>information to rubber cultivators<\/strong> related to production and productivity enhancement, reduction of cultivation cost, maintenance of soil fertility, disease control measures, etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Rubber Plantations in India<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Natural rubber is a polymer made up of a chemical molecule called isoprene.<\/li>\n<li>It is a native of the Amazon basin which was introduced to countries in the tropical belts of Asia and Africa in the late nineteenth century.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climatic conditions required for Rubber<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rainfall:<\/strong> It requires <strong>moist and humid climates<\/strong> with heavy rainfall of <strong>more than 200 cm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Temperature:<\/strong> It grows well in equatorial climates and temperatures <strong>above 25 degrees Celsius.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Soil:<\/strong> Well-drained, weathered soils.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>India is the world\u2019s largest producer and the <strong>third-largest user of natural rubber.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rubber Growing Areas in India\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Traditional Areas:<\/strong> Primarily in Tamil Nadu\u2019s Kanyakumari District and Kerala.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Non-traditional regions:<\/strong> Coastal Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra\u2019s Konkan Region, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, the northeastern provinces, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, among other places.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Polymer?<\/h3>\n<p>A polymer is a chemical compound with molecules bonded together in long, repeating chains. Because of their structure, polymers have unique properties that can be tailored for different uses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/economy\/agri-business\/crisp-rubber-board-launches-comprehensive-rubber-information-system\/article66656193.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>CRISP: Rubber Board launches comprehensive rubber information system<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISP app is developed by Rubber Research Institute of India in collaboration with Digital University of Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}