Examine the reasons for crisis in Indian agriculture.
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➡The crisis is being caused by speculations, importers who create artifical crisis, and huge foreign money coming to India to fuel speculators.
➡There are enough crops and food in India. However privatization of former public sector banks have forced the farmers to go to the money lenders
➡The related factors responsible for the crisis include: dependence on rainfall and climate, liberal import of agricultural products, reduction in agricultural subsidies
➡lack of easy credit to agriculture and dependence on money lenders, decline in government investment in the agricultural sector and conversion.
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Explanation:
Following are the reasons:
1. The minor size of cultivable lands, on which modern techniques of farming cannot be implemented and hence reduction fertility of the land.
2. High population and no corresponding growth in the land for cultivation and hence decline in output .
3. High dependence on rain for agriculture with absence of proper irrigation facilities and change in climate causing distress to the agricultural output.
4. Failure of green revolution as it did not work in drier areas and was not extended to all crops .
5. The decline in investment in irrigation and agricultural infrastructure.
6. Lack of availability of credit to farmers from formal sources .
7. Failure of government in providing right prices to the produce and lack of marketing infrastructure .
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