Write an essay about - Agriculture in India
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India is an agricultural country. About seventy percent of our population depends on agriculture. One-third of our National income comes from agriculture. Our economy is based on agriculture. The development of agriculture has much to do with the economic welfare of our country.
Our agriculture remained under developed for a long time. We did not produce enough food for our people. Our country had to buy food-grains from other countries, but the things are changing now. India is producing more food-grains than its needs. Some food-grains are being sent to other countries. Great improvements have been made in. agriculture through our five year plans. Green Revolution has been brought about in the agricultural field. Now our country is self-sufficient in food-grains. It is now in a position to export surplus food-grains and some other agricultural products to other countries.
Now India ranks first in the world in the production of tea and groundnuts. It ranks second in the world in the production of rice, sugarcane, jute and oil seeds. Till recent past before independence our agriculture depended on rains. As a result our agriculture produce was very small. In case the monsoons were good, we got a good harvest and in case the monsoons were not good, the crops failed and there was famine in some parts of the country. After the independence our Government made plans for the development of its agriculture.
Dams were constructed across many of the main rivers and canals were dug out to provide water for the irrigation of the land. Tube-wells and pump-sets were provided to the farmers to irrigate the fields, where canal water could not reach. The use of better seeds, fertilizers and new techniques in agriculture, has brought about a revolution called the Green Revolution in agriculture. Our agriculture produce has increased manifolds, but the progress is still hot sufficient. Our population is growing at a fast rate. Every year we have" millions of new mouths to be feeded. We must check this fast growing population.
In the past irrigation facilities were not sufficient. Farmers depended mainly on rain water for irrigation. Canals and tube-wells were very few. Under the five year plans our Government has built dams on many of the rivers. Bhakra-Nangal Project, Damodar Valley Project, Hirakud Dam, Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, Krishna Sagar Dam and Mettur Dam are some of these dams. Water is stored in big lakes and reservoirs for generating electricity for our industries and agriculture. Water of the dams is being taken by canals to distant lands for irrigation. Tube-wells and pumping sets have been supplied to the farmers. Now more land is irrigated and better crops are produced.
Our land was loosing its fertility being put to cultivation continuously for years together. Cattle dung which is the best form of manure, was being used as fuel. The use of manures and fertilizers helps to restore the fertility of the soil. Our Government has set up fertilizer plants at Nangal, Sindri, Trombay, Gorakhpur, Kamrup and Neyveli. Many new fertilizer factories are being built. Some chemical fertilizers are being imported from other countries. The Government is supplying sufficient fertilizers to the farmers. The use of these "chemical fertilizers has increased our agriculture produce manifolds.
Our farmers were using the primitive methods of agriculture. -For years they have been sowing the seeds produced by themselves. These seeds were not quality seeds and the yield was low. Now high yielding varities from Government farms are being supplied to the farmers. These improved and better seeds have considerably raised our farm produce.
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THE WORD AGRICULTURE CAME FROM THE LATIN WORD AGER-REFERRING TO THE SOIL AND CULTURE TO ITS CULTIVATION. AGRICULTURE IS KNOWN TO BE ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES. IT INVOLVES THE PRODUCTION OF PLANTS , LIVESTOCK , FIBRE AND FUEL AND MORE BY UTILIZING NATURAL RESOURCES SUCH AS WATER AND LAND. AGRICULTURE IS ALSO INVOLVED IN BREEDING OF ANIMALS SUCH AS COWS , BUFFALO , GOATS AND HENS ETC.. THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE TURNES TO A BOON FOR THE HUMAN CIVILIZATION AS IT ALSO GAVE WAY TO THEIR DEVELOPMENT. AGRICULTURE IS SAID TO BE AN ART , SCIENCE AND COMMERCE ALL AT SAME TIME IT SUFFICES THE FACTORS INVOLVED IN ALL THREE. OUR INDIA IS THE FARM COUNTRY AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANTOOCCUPATION IN INDIA DONE BY THE PEOPLE. MOST OF THE INDIAN POPULATION DEPENDS UPON AGRICULTURE. ALSO THE BACKBONE OF INDIA IS AGRICULTURE. AGRICULTURE IS SOUL OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY WHICH WAS SAID BY MAHATHMA GANDHI. AGRICULTURE IS THE PEOPLE REQUIREMENT TO GET FOOD FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD. MORE THAN 70 % OF POPULATION DEPENDS UPON AGRICULTURE. AGRICULTURE NEEDED TO THE ALL THE PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS IS ALL THE REQUIREMENT. WITHOUT AGRICULTURE THE PEOPLE WILL DIE BECAUSE THEN THERE WILL BE NO FOOD.. SAVE AGRICULTURE....
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