Problems Faced By Indian Agriculture

Agriculture plays an important role in the Indian economy. It provides employment to nearly two-thirds of the population. It provides us with the raw materials e.g. cotton, sugar, jute, etc. Agro-based industries are becoming popular and are growing ahead by manufacturing goods mainly for export. India exports other agricultural products such as tea, coffee, tobacco, sugar, oilseeds, cashew, spices, jute, cereals, and cotton textiles.

Agriculture affects the entire country. The good agricultural production helps in regulating the price rise, raises agricultural income, and generates employment. It also helps in eradicating poverty as most of the poor people are dependent on this sector for their livelihood. In India, cheap labor is available thus, labor-intensive ways of production are used instead of machines. The low earnings and low per capita income lead to low productivity. Most of the farmers still use outdated techniques and practice subsistence farming. Agriculture in India is highly dependent on the monsoons.

Nearly, 70 percent of the sown area continues to depend on rainfall rather than irrigation. The poor promotion and storing facilities are additional problems faced by Indian agriculture Agricultural yield in India has forever been a subject of worry it is low as compared to world production. These are mainly because of the small size of land assets, low funds, dependence on natural irrigation, population force, subsistence farming, bad soil fertility, insufficient loss precaution mechanism, and absence of possession rights to farmers in many cases.