food production in india is showing stagnation .Give reasons
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the reasons responsible for the stagnation in food production in India are as follow
1 Increased use of fertilizers pesticides have badly affected the fertility of soil inturn impacting overall agriculture production.
2 Scarcity of water, till today most of the farmers are dependent on monsoon to meet the irrigation need which again affects production . scarcity of water reduces the area under irrigation
3 There also has been reduction in net sown areas.
4 There has been increase in land areas which is used for non agriculture purpose from 4.95 % in 1962 7.82 % in 2002. More and has been rather used for buildings construction of roads etc.
5 last but not the least ,green revolution has turned out to be partial Revolution not all states and farmers have been benefited from it in terms of increasing their production.
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