What are the institutional and technological reforms introduced in india in agriculture?
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The main problems faced by farmers in India are:
Fragmentation of land holdings by successive inheritance
Primitive methods of farming
Dependence on monsoon and natural fertility of soil
Exploitation by local money lenders and middlemen
Lack of insurance against natural calamities
The technological and institutional changes initiated in India to improve the condition of farmers include:
The land reforms initiated in the first five-year plan aimed to:
abolish zamindari and
consolidate land holdings. The consolidation of land holdings involved combining adjacent small fields into single large farms and encouraging individual land owners to do cooperative farming.
Agricultural reforms in the 1960s and 1970s known as the green revolution in India:
Providing high yielding varieties of seeds and fertilisers to farmers, and
Developing large-scale irrigation facilities to allow them to grow two crops in a year.
Fragmentation of land holdings by successive inheritance
Primitive methods of farming
Dependence on monsoon and natural fertility of soil
Exploitation by local money lenders and middlemen
Lack of insurance against natural calamities
The technological and institutional changes initiated in India to improve the condition of farmers include:
The land reforms initiated in the first five-year plan aimed to:
abolish zamindari and
consolidate land holdings. The consolidation of land holdings involved combining adjacent small fields into single large farms and encouraging individual land owners to do cooperative farming.
Agricultural reforms in the 1960s and 1970s known as the green revolution in India:
Providing high yielding varieties of seeds and fertilisers to farmers, and
Developing large-scale irrigation facilities to allow them to grow two crops in a year.
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