Agriculture in india

1. Meesala Rajesh
21A55A0336

2. INTRODUCTION
 India is one of the major players in the agriculture sector
worldwide and it is the primary source of livelihood for
about 58% of India’s population. India has the world's
largest cattle herd (buffaloes), largest area planted to
wheat, rice, and cotton, and is the largest producer of
milk, pulses, and spices in the world. It is the second-
largest producer of fruit, vegetables, tea, farmed fish,
cotton, sugarcane, wheat, rice, cotton, and sugar.
Agriculture sector in India holds the record for second-
largest agricultural land in the world generating
employment for about half of the country’s population.
Thus, farmers become an integral part of the sector to
provide us with means of sustenance.

3. Major Achievements
 Record production of food grains
 Diversification towards horticulture crops
 Growing importance of allied activities
 Changing dynamics of agriculture trade

4. Challenges to agriculture sector
 Small and fragmented land holdings
 Inferior quality seeds
 Manures, fertilizers and biocides
 Irrigation challenges
 Lack of mechanization
 Weak marketing
 Poor storage infrastructure
 Low capital infusion

5. Consequences of the challenges
 Highest number of farmers suicides
 High wastage of agriculture products
 Low income of farmers
 High disguised unemployment
 Increasing chemical and pesticide usage
 High dependence on government and MSP
 Low private participation

6. Solution to tackle these challenges
 Promoting new technologies anf reforming agricultural
research and extension
 Improving water resources and irrigation
 Facilitating crop diversification to higher value
commodities
 Promoting high-growth commodities
 Developing markets, agricultural credit and public
expenditures
 Developing food processing industry
 Minimizing post-harvest losses
 Marketing reforms
 Climate change mitigation

7. Conclusion
 India has always been benefited by agriculture.
 Thus, the agriculture sector is playing a very important
role in India and the prosperity of the Indian economy
still largely depends on agriculture sector.
 Agricultural development is the basic pre condition of
sectoral diversification and development of the
economy.

8. Thank you