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The agriculture sector in India experienced satisfactory growth due to improved technology, irrigation, inputs and pricing policies. Agriculture remains a key sector, providing employment and livelihoods to over 70% of the rural population. However, water availability for agriculture has reached critical levels requiring urgent attention. Various factors like economic, social, technological, environmental and legal impact the agricultural industry in India.
The agriculture sector in India experienced satisfactory growth due to improved technology, irrigation, inputs and pricing policies. Agriculture remains a key sector, providing employment and livelihoods to over 70% of the rural population. However, water availability for agriculture has reached critical levels requiring urgent attention. Various factors like economic, social, technological, environmental and legal impact the agricultural industry in India.
The agriculture sector in India experienced satisfactory growth due to improved technology, irrigation, inputs and pricing policies. Agriculture remains a key sector, providing employment and livelihoods to over 70% of the rural population. However, water availability for agriculture has reached critical levels requiring urgent attention. Various factors like economic, social, technological, environmental and legal impact the agricultural industry in India.
P : Political factors affecting the agricultural industry.
E : Economic factors affecting the agricultural
industry. S : Social factors affecting the agricultural industry. T : Technological factors affecting the agricultural industry. E : Environmental factors affecting the agricultural industry. Legal : Laws or legal factors affecting the agricultural industry. The agriculture sector recorded satisfactory growth due to improved technology, irrigation, inputs and pricing policies.
Despite the structural change, agriculture still
remains a key sector, providing both employment and livelihood opportunities to more than 70 percent of the country's population who live in rural areas.
The water availability for agricultural uses has reached
a critical level and deserves urgent attention of all concerned. Micro finance scheme has been introduced by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development the apex bank for agriculture and rural development in India, to improve the access of the rural poor to formal institutional credit and other financial products.
Insurance is a prime necessity to mitigate uncertainty that persists in
agriculture. In India, agriculture is still affected by such factors, which are beyond control of human being. So, there is a great need for agricultural insurance in India.
Availability of adequate credit is vital for every sector and agriculture is
not an exception.
In India, Commercial Banks, Cooperative Banks, and Regional Rural
Banks ( RRBs) are responsible for smooth flow of credit to agricultural sector . Since long time, Indian farmers have been facing a number of socioeconomic problems:
harassment by moneylenders.
inability to repay debts following crop loss.
inability to get medical treatment for the family.
The families of the farmers who had committed suicide
were also offered an ex-gratia grant to the tune of Rs.100000 by the government . Strategies and programs have been directed towards replacement of traditional land inefficient implements by improved ones: enabling the farmers to own tractors , power tillers, harvesters and other machines. availability of custom services, support services of human resource development, testing and evaluation and research and development. financial assistance isprovided to the farmers for the purchase of identified agricultural implements andmachines Rains is the life blood for India agricultural sector.
In India, monsoon is crucial for summer sow crops, like,
soybean, rice, cotton ansugarcane.
With only 40 percent of farmland irrigated, the vast
majority of India's small farmers depend on monsoon to water their seeds. Irrigation: Provision has been made in a number of ,states for constructing , improving irrigation works.
Soil and water conservation: In order to prevent soil
deterioration owing to erosion, most of the states have enacted legislation, empowering their governments to take up early anti soil-erosion measures.
Fertilizers : The law envisaged the statutory control of the
prices of three fertilizers, namelyammonium sulphate, urea and calcium ammonium nitrate BY: FUTURE AGRICULTURALIST