Question

Describe the main problems of Indian Agriculture.

Answer 1

Problem # 1. Instability:

Agriculture in India is largely depends on monsoon. As a result, production of food-grains fluctuates year after year. A year of abun­dant output of cereals is often followed by a year of acute shortage.

This, in its turn, leads to price income and employment fluctuations. However, for the thirteen year, in successive (1987-88 to 1999-00) a normal monsoon has been observed.

Problem # 2. Cropping Pattern:

The crops that are grown in India are divided into two broad catego­ries: food crops and non-food crops. While the former comprise food-grains, sugarcane and other beverages, the latter includes different kinds of fibres and oilseeds.

Answer 2

Main problems of Indian Agriculture:

• Agriculture is considered as one of the biggest economy section for India, because of its larger size area available for agriculture.
• Problems like small an fragmented land area, land ownership, weather instability, cropping patterns, seed productivity, quality of manures, fertilizers, and biocides, soil erosion, lack of irrigation or water supply.
• Mechanization facilities, inadequate storage and transport facilities, scarcity of capital, conditions of agricultural laborers, indebtedness of the farmers, agricultural price instability and poor marketing strategies of agricultural marketing.  

 

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