suggest some step in the cropping pattern to improve their economic condition and environmental degradation explain with examples
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Explanation:
Back to Basics: Cropping Pattern mean the proportion of area under different crops at a point of time, changes in this distribution overtime and factors determining these changes.
Cropping pattern in India is determined mainly by rainfall, climate, temperature and soil type.
Technology also plays a pivotal role in determining crop pattern. Example, the adoption of High Yield Varieties Seeds along with fertilisers in the mid 1960’s in the regions of Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh increased wheat production significantly.
The multiplicity of cropping systems has been one of the main features of Indian agriculture. This may be attributed to following two major factors:
Rainfed agriculture still accounts for over 92.8 million hectares or 65 percent of the cropped area. A large diversity of cropping systems exists under rainfed and dryland areas with an overriding practice of intercropping, due to greater risks involved in cultivating larger area under a particular crop.
Due to prevailing socio-economic situations (such as; dependency of large population on agriculture, small land-holding size, very high population pressure on land resource etc.), improving household food security has been an issue of supreme importance to many million farmers of India, who constitute 56.15 million marginal (<1.0 hectare), 17.92 million small (1.0-2.0 hectare) and 13.25 million semi-medium (2.0-4.0 hectare) farm holdings, making together 90 percent of 97.15 million operational holdings.
An important consequence of this has been that crop production in India remained to be considered, by and large, a subsistence rather than commercial activity.
Answer:
Watershed Development and Moisture Conservation; 5. Optimising the Benefits of Irrigation; 6. Seeds of quality, Seeds of Prosperity - Improving Seed; Replacement Rate; 7. Development of Horticulture : The Coming Revolution in Karnataka; 8. Development of Dairy Farming 9. Developing Poultry Industry
The steps to be taken to minimize the environmental degradation caused The steps to be taken to minimize the environmental degradation caused by industry are;1) To control water pollution, industrial effluents need to be treated on all three levels.2) For the minimisation of air pollution, smokestacks should be fitted to factories with electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters, scrubbers and inertial separators. Also, smoke can be reduced by using oil or gas instead of coal.3) Noise pollution can be controlled by fitting generators with silencers, redesigning machinery to reduce noise, and using earplugs and earphones besides other noise absorbing material.