Indian Agriculture and its challenges & Potential needs

1. Indian Agriculture: Challenges
& Potential
• Gowtham. P
• PSG College Of Arts & science

2. Introduction
India is an agricultural country, one third
population depends on agriculture sector directly or
indirectly. Agriculture continues to be the ministry of the
Indian economy. Indian agriculture contributes to the
national Gross Domestic Product is about 25 per cent.
With food being the crowning need of the mankind, much
emphasis has been on commercializing agricultural
production. Hence, adequate production and even
distribution of food has lately become a high priority
global concern. With the changing agricultural scenario
and global competition, there is a need of exploiting the
available resources at maximum level.

3. Challenges
A major challenge to the agricultural sector
and more specifically TDT systems is to
develop/adapt the technologies which can increase
the overall on farm production and productivity of
all major farming groups
The second challenge to the agricultural
sector and the TDT systems follows from the first -
this is the development of the technology transfer
system (both the software and hardware) to ensure
its efficient supply and utilization.

4. Challenges
The third challenge is to ensure that whatever
is produced is safely stored on the farm (for home
consumption) and/or is transported, processed and
marketed/exported to the urban consumer/external
markets with a minimum of post-harvest losses.
The fourth challenge is to maintain the
sustainability of the agricultural resource base i.e. in
meeting challenges 1-3, there must be minimum
environmental degradation

5. Problems Faced By The Agricultural Sector Through
Economic Means
Agriculture has increased its contribution of value-added to
the economy. However, it has declined in its contribution to GDP. In
1980-1990, its share of GDP fell from 22.9 to 18.7 per cent despite a
2 per cent annual growth rate (table 2). That share declined further to
13.6 per cent in 1995. Manufacturing, in contrast, increased its value
added by 13.3 per cent a year during 1991-1995, and by 1995 it was
contributing33.1 percent toGDP.

6. Economic Challenges
The agricultural sector also had to face the
challenge of natural problems. Malaysia never had a
comparative advantage in the production of food.
Production of beef and mutton, for example,
suffered from a lack of pasture, low production
through reduced food intake by animals as a result
of the hot and humid climate, and the high import
costs of animals. In addition, rice production has
continued to fall short of a series of successively
lower targets.

7. Challenges
1. Lack of Capital
2. Lack of Credit Facilities
3. Leasing System
4. Water Logging and Salinity
5. Smuggling
6. Old Methods of Cultivation
7. Natural Circumstances

8. 8. Increase in Population
9. Small Holdings
10. Single Cropping
11. Under Utilization of Land

9. Challenges Facing the Agricultural Development
Process
1. Water
2. Agricultural Lands
3. Human Resources and Capacity Building
4. Agro Investments
5. Environmental Challenges

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