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Explain any to problem faced by Indian Agriculture 5marks​

Answer 1

Answer:Top 13 Problems Faced by Indian Agriculture

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Here we detail about the thirteen major problems faced by Indian agriculture.

1. Inequality in Land Distribution:

The distribution of agricultural land in India has not been fairly distributed. Rather there is a considerable degree of concentration of land holding among the rich landlords, farmers and money lenders throughout the country. But the vast majority of small farmers own a very small and uneconomic size of holdings, resulting to higher cost per units. Moreover, a huge number of landless cultivators has been cultivating on the land owned by the absentee landlords, leading to lack of incentives on the part of these cultivators.

2. Land Tenure System:

The land tenure system practiced in India is suffering from lot of defects. Insecurity of tenancy was a big problem for the tenants, particularly during the pre- independence period. Although the land tenure system has been improving during the post-independence period after the introduction of various land reforms measures but the problem of insecurity of tenancy and eviction still prevails to some extent due to the presence of absentee landlords and benami transfer of land in various states of the country.

3. Sub-division and Fragmentation of holdings:

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In India, the average size of holding is expected to decline from 1.5 hectares in 1990-91 to 1.3 hectares in 2000-01. Thus the size of agricultural holding is quite uneconomic, small and fragmented. There is continuous sub-division and fragmentation of agricultural land due to increasing pressure of population and breakdown of the joint family system and also due to forced selling of land for meeting debt repayment obligations. Thus the size of operational holdings has been declining year by year leading to increase in the number of marginal and small holdings and fall in the number of medium and large holdings.

4. Cropping Pattern:

The cropping pattern which shows the proportion of the area under different crops at a definite point of time is an important indicator of development and diversification of the sector. Food crops and non-food or cash crops arc the two types of crops produced by the agricultural sector of the country.

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Answer 2

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• The problems are related to the land and the labor as the Small and fragmented land holdings and has a poor land reforms as the 4.9% of the farmers and the 32% of the farmland and the initiation of the monsoon season that is a results in the development of the production and the consolations of the manual laborers and have surplus labor with a disguised employment.

• Most of the farmers still rely on the age-old technology and thus have a poor storage capacity much of its gets wasted at the time of need. Along with low and inadequate water supplies that affect the cropping patterns and the cropping intensity.  

• Lack of the agricultural marketing due to the small and the fragmented landholdings. Lack of support form the government and low and less incentive are the main reason for the problems that are faced by the Indian agriculture.