REVOLUTIONISTS2013

The great deal increase in industrialization has caused a major set back in Indian agricultural productivity.

While agriculture’s share in India’s economy has progressively declined to less than 15% due to the high growth rates of the industrial and services sectors

INDUSTRIALIZATION- The increase in industrial lands have caused a great decrease of farming land which has really suppressed the Indian agricultural productivity

LACK OF INTEREST- Today’s generation shows nil interest towards agricultural field which has affected the further researches in this field.

INCREASE INPUT COST-

Wage rates increased at double digit rates per year in the last five years

REDUCING FARM SIZE- the major challenges in the Indian agro sector is the phenomenon of decline in farm holding size.

ECONOMY

• Agriculture employs more than half the population, but it accounts for only 15 percent of the economy — and it has grown an average of only about 3 percent in recent years

• In December 2010, India’s food prices jumped 13.7 from the year earlier, while inflation for all commodities, heavily weighted by the food number, stood at 8.4 percent.

EMPLOYMENT

• For sustainable development of our country we need to increase employment in agricultural sectors.

FOOD SECURITY

• The recent rise in the price of onion is the one of the best reason to increase productivity as it has reached more than it’s peak value as estimated earlier.

• To reduce malnutrition.

• To enhance the chances of exporting our produces to help our economy to rise.

Graph showing the reducing agricultural contribution to economy

The government of India should implement strict rules to protect our forests. For e.g. : In UK, for every one tree that was uprooted for industrial purpose two trees were planted in return.

Emphasis must be given to the states in which current yield levels are below the national average yield. Policy reforms are needed from now to avoid the negative developments in the years to come.

CROPS TO EMPHASIZE

CONCERENED STATES YEILD PER%

RICE Bihar, Orissa, Assam, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh

LITTLE MORE INCREMENT NEEDED

WHEAT Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan

LITTLE MORE INCREMENT NEEDED

COARSE CEREALS Maharashtra,

Karnataka, Madhya

Pradesh, Andhra

Pradesh and Uttar

Pradesh

6% INCREASE IS NEEDED

PULSES Madhya Pradesh,

Maharashtra,

Rajasthan, Gujarat,

Andhra Pradesh,

Karnataka and Uttar

Pradesh

4% INCREASE IS NEEDED

OILSEEDS Rajasthan,

Maharashtra,

Karnataka, West

Bengal

4% INCREASE IS NEEDED

The government has to play a more proactive role as coordinator, facilitator and also as a

regulator. Higher investment in basic infrastructure like roads, canal waters,

watersheds, check dams, etc. will attract private investment in other areas of the

supply chain. Future breakthrough technologies in agriculture will come increasingly from the private sector

industries, and India’s private sector has the strength to multiply those technologies.

Private sector investment in developing regularized markets, logistics and ware house receipt systems, futures markets,

and in infrastructure (such as cold storage facilities, quality certification, etc.) for imports and exports. This is particularly

relevant for the high value segment that is currently hostage to high post-harvest losses and weak farm-firm linkages.

The industries should support NGOs ,research institutions and farmer

organizations to ensure the free flow of information, technology and germplasm so that a proper

sustainable

agriculture can be achieved.

Another role is to provide the Livestock sectors high priority with multiple

objectives of diversifying agriculture, raising income and meeting the nutritional security

of the poor farm households. Need based and location-specific community programs, which promise to raise nutritional security,

should be identified and effectively implemented.

Create rural centers of production and processing by masses through cooperatives or empowerment of Gram Panchayats to promote co-

operatives. This will improve efficiency of input and output

marketing and give higher income.

1. RAISING INTEREST: All institutions should include a stream namely agricultural engineering and making this stream more interesting so that students get attracted towards this branch.

The government should provide scholarships to the students based on merit participating in the Entrance examination.

2. RESEARCH FIELDS : More research institutions should be set up to increase agricultural productivity. Farming system research to develop location specific technologies and strategy to make grey areas green by adopting three-pronged approach - watershed management, hybrid technology and small farm mechanization will accelerate growth in total factor productivity.

3. INCREASING EMPLOYMENT: A group of agricultural engineers should be placed in villages of every states so that they can do monthly inspection and help the farmers accordingly.

POLITICAL CHALLENGE

• One of the most challenging job is to unite all the political powers to a common goal such as for raising funds to support the farmers.

RAISING INTEREST

• The biggest challenge is to raise interest in the youths of India towards agriculture. Until and unless we do this it is impossible to improve the productivity.

It is impossible for private sector industries to

implement something new without the coordination

of the village organizations. Giving them power over

the administration, as contemplated under the

73rdand 74th Amendment of the Constitution has not

been implemented seriously so far in any of the

states. This must be done very soon.

The education institutes and school should conduct

campaigns in which they can take the help of some

farmers and other knowledge men of agriculture to

encourage the students interested in this stream to

take more interest and help in boosting agriculture

economy in future years.

Regarding increasing farm productivity trained

professionals should be allotted for all the districts

who can make a weekly assessment of the farms and

explain the farmers what the have to do for better

productivity.

FARMER’S SUPPORT

VILLAGE ORGANIZATION

SUPPORT

INDUSTRIAL SUPPORT

The Gross Domestic Product in the country like India is experiencing a faster rate of growth in the recent years. With regards to the composition of GDP, the percentage shares of various sectors have largely changed. The percentage share of the agriculture in the total GDP has declined, on the contrary the percentage share of non agricultural sector in the GDP is rising faster. Agriculture & Allied sectors which used to contribute 57 per cent of GDP in 1950-51 has come down to 14 per cent in 2011-12 at 2004-05 prices. This decline is a result of several factors like governmental intervention in labor, land, and credit markets; lack of Infrastructure; small size of land holdings; poorly maintained or non-existent land records; inadequate use of modern technology; illiteracy; inadequate finance and marketing services for farm produce; inadequate irrigation facilities; more importance given to non-agricultural sectors by government etc. If the above mentioned bottlenecks can be removed by adopting modern technologies and providing better infrastructure facilities, India could not only eradicate hunger within India, but can also become a major source of food for the world.