The document outlines strategies to improve farm productivity in India through increased farm mechanization. It discusses that farm mechanization can help address issues like declining soil quality, water scarcity, and increasing global food demand. The strategies proposed include developing a national farm mechanization policy focused on small land holdings, promoting customized Indian technologies, and improving access through financing and subsidies linked to productivity. A multi-pronged approach is suggested involving machinery manufacturers, policy reforms, skill development, and farmer-centric initiatives to drive adoption of mechanization across the crop cycle.

1. Strategies to improve Farm Productivity through Farm MechanizationRohtash Mal Executive DirectorEscorts Agri Machinery Group

2. 2Contents:Backdrop : Global food and Agriculture scenario

3. Indian Agriculture – Key vectors for Production Enhancement

4. Productivity & Farm Mechanisation

5. Farm Mechanisation : Challenges

6. Farm Mechanisation Strategy : Multi Domain Approach

7. Evolution & way forwardStrategies to improve farm productivity through farm mechanization

8. Backdrop : Global food & Agriculture scenarioFood demand increasing while resources getting scarce81 million [1.31% growth] added to food demand every year*Soils getting less productiveDepleting fresh water resources 11% of total global arable land in India

9. well positioned to meet internal demand

10. can be the answer to the global food needsNearing to the end of fossil fuel era (dependence on bio-fuels)* http://www.intmath.com/Exponential-logarithmic-functions/world-population-live.phpStrategies to improve farm productivity through farm mechanization

11. 4Indian Agriculture : key vectors and critical success factorIncrease in Production ObjectiveKey VectorsEnhancing Cropping intensityProductivity increase [Yield/ha]Farm MechanisationCritical Success Factor Strategies to improve farm productivity through farm mechanization

12. Production Enhancement : The Yield enhancement vectorYield is only one third of the developed countries

13. considerable headroom for yield improvement visible * Figures represents Yield of major crops during 2001 ** Yield is defined as Production in Kg /haSource: Directorate of Economic & StatisticsStrategies to improve farm productivity through farm mechanization

14. Production Enhancement : The Cropping intensity vector------Gross Sown Area, million hacropping intensity192.80mha141.89mha131.89mha110 Cr------Net Sown Area, million ha118.75mha36 CrPopulationArable Area60.20 mha------Net Irrigated Area, million ha20.85 mhaQuantum Production enhancement possible thru Sweating of assets [current arable land] with year round potential to grow crops, the cropping intensity is dismalStrategies to improve farm productivity through farm mechanization

15. 7Productivity : role of farm mechanisationCrop CycleTimelinessInter CultivationTillage& seedbed PreparationSowing/ PlantingFertiliser ApplicationIrrigationHarvestingPost HarvestingSeedbed Quality

16. Timeliness

17. Sowing Depth

18. Inter Plant distance

19. Easy Operation

20. Uniformity

21. Optimum use

22. Placement

23. Value addition

24. Reduced losses