Agriculture in India faces many crises that threaten its viability. Key issues include environmental degradation affecting production, illiteracy hampering farm management, and growing farmer crisis leading to increased suicides. Solutions proposed are increasing incomes, accelerating agricultural transformation, reducing risks, improving infrastructure, and enhancing rural quality of life. The document examines factors causing the agricultural crisis in India and priorities needed to improve the sector.

1. A g r i c u l t u r e
c r i s i s i n I n d i a
Issues and priorities for Agriculture in India
Agriculture in India

2. I N T R O D U C T
I O N
 Agricultural crisis
 How to stop agricultural
 Factor's responsible for the crisis
 Environmental degradation effect on agriculture
 Illiteracy in agriculture
 Farmer crisis in agriculture
 Farmer suicides in India
 conclusion

3. A G R I C U L T
U R E I N C R I S I S : -
Agriculture:-
Agriculture in India holds an very important part in
the flow of economy as it holds "56.6%" of the
employment
 Agriculture is key for economic transformation,
food security , and nutrition. ….Agriculture plays
a critical role in transforming economies to reach
the goal.
Agricultural crisis:-
The increased cost of cultivation, inadequate
Irrigation, drought, flood and crop failure all
contribute to the lack of viability in the farming
profession and debt of farmers
 Agricultural sector in India contributes only
"18%" of India's 'GDP' out of the 56.6%

4. H O W T O S T O P A G R I C U LT U R A L
C R I S I S : -
Increasing incomes.
Agricultural
transformation is
very slow in India …
1
Generating
employment
opportunities …
2
Reducing risks in
agriculture...
3
Developing Agri-
infrastructure...
4
Improving quality of
rural life...
5

5. F A C T O R S R E S P O N S I B L E F O R T H E
C R I S I S

6. E N V I R O N M E N T A L D E G R A D A T I O N E F F E C T O N
A G R I C U L T U R E : -
The degraded environment worsens conditions of the poor by limiting their
already restricted access to production resources .this applies particularly in
the rural water resources, soil and forestry, which comprise the resources base
for agriculture.
Factors affecting agricultural production:-
o Precipitation. …
o Temperature. …
o Solar radiation. …
o Wind velocity....
o Soil moisture.

7. I L L I T E R A C Y I N
A G R I C U LT U R E : -
What certainly is not good for Indian
farming is that 30% of marginal and small
farmers are still illiterate. that compromises
their capacity to manage farm inputs in
appropriate combinations for specific crop.

8. F A R M E R C R I S I S I N
A G R I C U LT U R E : -
Around 41.49%of total labor are
associated with agriculture in
year 2020.farmer"
suicides "account for 11.2% of all
suicides in India.... Farmer's
income rose by 30% while their
debt surged around 58% between
2013 and 2019

9. F A R M E R ' S S U I C I D E S
I N I N D I A : -
Reasons for suicides of farmers:-
The reasons were debt, alcohol
addiction, environment, low produce
prices, stress and family
responsibilities, apathy, poor irrigation,
increased cost of cultivation, private
money lenders, use of chemical
fertilizers and crop failure.

10. C O N C L U S I O N : -
L E T U S C H A N G E
T H E
A G R I C U L T U R E
S E C T O R O F
I N D I A , S O T H A T
I T C A N R E G A I N
I T ' S G L O R Y A N D
L E D T O
P R O S P E R I T Y

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B
harath