21st CENTURY INDIA’s AGRICULTURAL CHALLENGES

INTRODUCTION

• Agriculture is the largest provider of livelihood in rural India

• It contributes 25 percent to India’s GDP

• It is still dependent primarily on the monsoons

• Future wars will be fought on food and water, money cant buy all!

• The growth in agricultural production has been stagnant for the past several years.

India’s Scenario

<Rs. 50 per

day

Rs. 100 per

day

Rs.200 per

day

>Rs. 500 per

day

20% of world’s population

(2/3rds experience hunger

& malnutrition)

27% of world’s population

(Most hunger problems

solved at Rs. 100 threshold)

Services

Processed

Products

Livestock

products

Commodities

Dynamics of food demand, India

Reasons For low Productivity –

• Irrigation Unstability

• Low productive seeds

• Harmful fertilizers

• Social belief

• Nil modernization

REAL STATE OF FARMERS,INDIA

HOPE IS NOT VERY FAR

WHAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD PLAN…

1. Inter linking of rivers : Irrigation

2. ORGANIC FERTILIZER

• Organic Cultivation is a type of farming that does not involve usage of chemicals like chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

• Major shift has been observed in the farming culture, due to which several farmers have begun practicing this traditional method of cultivation

• organic cultivation is proven as the

• to produce safe foodstuffs and preserve the environment.

BENEFITS OF ORGANIC FARMING

• Premium quality and premium prices

• Low investment as inputs not costly

• Less dependence on money lenders

• Synergy with other life forms like plants and animals

• The demand for organic food is very high throughout the world

• India has huge potential for organic farming

Organic Manure

3. GOOD QUALITY OF SEEDS: CULTIVATION

• Government should provides good quality seeds at subsidie

4. MODERN EQIUPMENTS : EASINESS

5. SOCIAL BELIEF : REVOLUTION

Thinking of farmers is – less cultivation on small lands and more on larger one.

This belief should be edited by awareness , or through programs being conducted by Governments, NGO’s thus creating the environment.

NEW PLANS, NEW HOPE

Pine Trees

• In hilly areas, in north, pine trees can be used as fertilizers i.e. organic manure.

• It contains citric acid, which will provide vitamins to plants or vegetables, and then indirectly to us.

• In Uttarakhand, pine trees are most commonly used organic manure since many years.

• Pine trees are easy available manure without any harm.

Dealing with Youth

• Bring awareness about the importance of agriculture amongst the urban youth

• Make them supporters of Agriculture in their future roles as leaders

• Encourage some to engage in careers related to Agricutlure

Agriculture will shape our future!

IN FACT it is the real hope

for a Healthier, happier future!

• Change is happening in rural India but it has still a long way to go

• Agriculture has benefited from improved farming techniques but the growth is not equitable

• Land use is changing in rural areas as farmers are getting good value for their holdings.The effort should be to stop the migration to urban areas

• The Government, the planners have to step up efforts to make a positive and equitable difference in the lives of the farmers’ and make agriculture occupy a pride of place in the nation’s economy.

CONCLUSION -