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Innovations in Agriculture An Overview
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Kumar, Jagdish Sivalingam, P. N. Mallikarjuna, J. Jain, S. K. Sridhar, J. Kumar, K. Kiran Anand, Sujay Ghosh, P. K. |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | India is one of the agriculturally important countries in the world and has strong net-work of agriculture education, research and extension. As per the historical record India is committed to thrive and excel independently. During 1965–66, India imported food grains from the US under PL-480 scheme, and the situation was “ship-to-mouth”. This condition was also exacerbated with the growing population which made India to increase its food production at most priority with commitment. With the introduction of high yielding semi dwarf varieties of rice from IRRI, The Philippines and wheat from Mexico which combined with right policies of government to provide essential inputs and market facilities, credit etc. revolutionized the Indian agriculture. In addition to these innovative ideas and policies the food production reached to the level of self-sufficiency until today. For instance the food production during 1950-51 was 54 million tonnes and reached to 285 million tonnes during 2018-19. After the fourth five year plan, India made its stand of self-sufficiency even affected by any year of worst drought. Later, the focus had been given on agricultural research and education in the country for sustaining self-sufficiency in agriculture sector at all times of change of conditions within the country and also globally. Although more than 65 per cent of rural population is depend on agriculture sector, the average monthly income is about Rs. 6500. It reveals that under employment and large population in India depend on agriculture which is unsustainable (Rena, 2003). Therefore, it is needed to books the rural economy, create new infrastructure and other innovations in this sector. India has been emphasizing for innovative techniques. The main advantage for India is the richest natural resources and need only planning and execution on innovation front. Book Name: Innovations in Agriculture for a Self-Reliant India |
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| Ending Page | 32 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| Starting Page | 15 |
| DOI | 10.1201/9781003245384-3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-11-29 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Innovations in Agriculture for a Self-reliant India Sufficiency Agriculture Drought Innovative Food Production Country Create New Production Reached Agricultural Research |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
