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How to Create Sustainable Agricultural Environment

HOW CAN INDIA OVERCOME FARM DISTRESS AND CREATE AN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTUTRAL ENVIRONMENT 

Sustainable Agricultural


Mahatma Gandhi once said "India resides in her villages". This statement is still relevant as even today more than 50% of people directly or indirectly depended upon agriculture. Agriculture is the backbone of economy as it provide raw material to industry in supply side and farming households are crucial for the effective demand creation.
However Indian agriculture is facing several constraints starting from farmer's field to marketing of produce. Our agricultural production is depended upon monsoon rainfall because 68% of arable land is rainfed. Penetration of formal credit is still not up to the mark.

 Insurance cover is minimum. High quality of seeds and other inputs are beyond the reach of majority of farmers. To address this government has taken mojor steps such as nationalization of bank,creation of NABARD,primary sector landing and PMKISAN etc. for easy finance.

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana for crop insurance.PMKSY for irrigation.around 85% of our farmers are marginal and small. So its difficult to have the economies of scale and farm mechanization.

 Cluster based Farmer Producer Organisation are given much importance to addres this problem.It will also help to execute new farm practices such as Nature Based Agricultural Farming,Organic farming,Precision Farming,Climate resilient farming etc. These methods are not ony profitable but also sustainable.
Marketing has been a great problem in recent years.Aim is to reduce the middle man involve in it.So government has com up with a new scheme call e-NAM where farmer can sell their produce to a buyer sitting anywhere in the country.It will help in better price discovery.

Contract Faring is also agreat step in this regard.For easy and quick transportation Kisan Rail and Krrishi Udan has been launched in this budget.PM krishi sampada yojana has been launched for value addition and food processing.

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