The correct answer is 1960-61. Explanation & Key Takeaways: • Intensive Agriculture District Programme (IADP) • The Intensive Agriculture District Programme, popularly known as package programme was launched in India during the kharif season in 1960. • The central idea behind the launch of IADP was that increased agricultural productivity would lead to economic growth, which would ensure the welfare of the society. • The method adopted in IADP was to demonstrate the feasibility of increased agricultural production rapidly by concentrating on all factors of production at the same time in an integrated action programme in selected districts fulfilling optimum conditions. • The programme was known as a package programme because of the collective and simultaneous application of all improved practices namely improved seeds, irrigation, fertilizer, plant protection, implements, storage facilities, marketing and credit facilities etc. • Initially, 7 districts were covered under the programme namely Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu), West Godavari (Andhra Pradesh), Sahabad (Bihar), Raipur (Madhya Pradesh), Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), Ludhiana (Punjab), and Pali (Rajasthan). • The selection of districts was done on the basis of their high potential for increasing the agricultural yield in a shorter time. • These selected districts had assured water supply for irrigation, well-developed cooperatives, good physical infrastructure and minimum hazards. Important Notes: • Objectives of IADP • To achieve rapid increase in agricultural production through concentration of financial, technical, and administrative resources. • To achieve a self-generating breakthrough in productivity and to raise the production potential by stimulating the human and physical process of change. • To demonstrate the most effective ways of increasing production and thus, to provide lessons for promoting such intensive agricultural production programmes to other areas. Thus, The Intensive Agriculture District Programme (IADP) was launched in the year 1960-61.