Nanotechnology: A Boost for the Urgently Needed Second Green Revolution in Indian Agriculture

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Kaizar Hossain ◽  
Syed Zaghum Abbas ◽  
Akil Ahmad ◽  
Mohd Rafatullah ◽  
Norli Ismail ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
Indian Agriculture

scholarly journals Zero Budget Natural Farming in India: Aiming Back to the Basics

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Saikat Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Inadequate Information ◽  
Environmentally Safe ◽  
Natural Farming

Crisis of Indian agriculture is very pertinent at this moment as green revolution is gradually losing its hope. Excessive, pointless exploitation of broods of green revolution has left bad footprints on country’s food security and environmental safety. With the motto to ensure food security by reviving Indian agriculture in environmentally safe way as well as to release farmers from debt cycle and suicides, zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) has come in the picture, which discards uses of all the chemical farming inputs and relies on natural way of farming i.e. rejuvenating soil and crop health through its own practices (Jivamrita, Bijamrita, mulching, soil aeration, intercropping, crop diversification, bunds, bio-pesticides etc.). ZBNF movement right now is the most popular agrarian movement which begun in 2002 in Karnataka and later successfully spread in many states (specially, of South India) of the nation through numbers of trainings, demonstrations and various promotional activities. Successful outcomes from farmers’ fields of south Indian states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka etc. are encouraging and grabbing attention of farmers, public and private organisations towards ZBNF in recent times. Yet, various controversies regarding its transparency,      inadequate information, efficacy, practices, idealisms, even the term ‘zero budget’ etc. have agglutinated around ZBNF over the years since it debuted. Critics in fact have cited several references of drastic yield reductions with ZBNF practices in many places. Adequate scientific evaluation or monitoring of ZBNF’s successes or failures through multi-locational trials is now therefore the needful before allowing or restraining its run in Indian agriculture.

Trade Liberalization and Diversification in Indian Agriculture

2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Nilabja Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Indian Agriculture

The paper finds that trade liberalization in Indian agriculture has expectedly promoted specialization in areas of advantage, namely the superior cereals and gone against diversification towards oilseeds. Trade liberalization seems to have picked up where green revolution left off while diversification suffered portending some well known ill effects. Since oilseeds that lose in the process and coarse cereals they replace and that have been on a decline for some decades are suited to dry environments whereas the superior cereals demand more water and other costly inputs, there is a need to seriously consider the concerns of diversity, sustainability and poverty in a heterogeneous agriculture when negotiating trade and designing policy.

Indian agriculture after the Green Revolution

2017 ◽  
pp. 8-28
Author(s):  
Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh ◽  
Phanindra Goyari ◽  
Kiril Tochkov
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
Indian Agriculture

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
A. Narayanamoorthy
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Crop Cultivation ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
On Farm ◽  
Different Parts

This chapter delineates the various issues and myths concerning farm income in India in an emphatic manner. Indian agriculture has made rapid progress after the introduction of the Green Revolution in terms of production and productivity of crops. But, this development seems to have not made any big impact on the income of farmers. Owing to poor remuneration from crop cultivation that lead to increased indebtedness, widespread suicides of farmers have been reported in different parts of the country. Unfortunately, comprehensive analysis covering all the pertinent issues of farm income is not available in India. Besides flagging the pertinent issues on farm income, this chapter provides a brief overview of all the chapters included in this volume.

Sustainability Issues and Challenges of Monoculture Cropping Pattern in Farming of Haryana

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha .
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Soil Salinity ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Cropping Pattern ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Rotation Pattern ◽  
Water Logging ◽  
Agriculture Sustainability ◽  
Emerging Issues

Green revolution, which was ushered in 1966, has considerably changed the scenario of Indian agriculture. But Monotonous cropping (mono crop) systems of rice and wheat pose serious threats for agriculture sustainability. The study examines the area and crops rotation of various crops in farming and emerging issues and challenges of sustainability in agriculture. The result of the study revealed that monocultures agriculture issues and crops rotation pattern has increases the environmental imbalance because the only staple crops are plough in the field which requires the lot of fertilizer and irrigation. The rice and wheat cropping pattern arise many environmental problems, e.g. water logging, soil salinity and exploitation of the natural resources because both the crops are highly water and chemical intensive. The cropping system in has unnecessarily become energy intensive and affecting the static ecological balance in agriculture has degrades the environment and sustainability.

Malthus and the Theory of ‘Unequal Powers’: Population and Food Production in India, 1800–1947

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Commander
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Population Growth Rates ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Food Imports ◽  
Food Commodities

The spectre of a ‘Malthusian’ catastrophe engulfing the subcontinent commands less attention currently than in relatively recent times. This is largely attributable to the greater sense of confidence in the food-grain supply capacity of Indian agriculture in the wake of the Green Revolution. From the mid-1960s through to 1980, output has maintained a growth rate in excess of 2.5% p.a., with yield increments rather than area increments accounting for the major part. Since 1950, per capita net availability of foodgrains has increased by over 20%, while the real price of foodgrains has shown a steady downward trend since 1968. Current projections suggest that self-sufficiency in food production can be sustained through to the end of the century. Yet this remains partly contingent on climatic factors and a slackening trend of population growth. However, population growth rates currently exceed 2.2% p.a. and the relative stability of fertility rates means that a diminution is by no means assured. While supply shortfalls could be met through increased imports of food commodities, the possible emergence of India in the longer term as a food deficitary economy could have serious implications for the international grain market, given the current structure of supply for foodgrains and the growing dependence, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, on food imports.

Farm Income in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Narayanamoorthy
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Price Policy ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Irrigated Crops ◽  
Employment Guarantee

The Green Revolution resulted in spectacular advancements in Indian agriculture. Having achieved food security for its citizens, the country has now become a net exporter of different agricultural commodities. But sadly, this does not reflect the real state of the Indian agricultural sector. In truth, our farmers are plagued by crop failures, poor income, and indebtedness. Such is their misery that they are of late driven to commit suicide. In this book, the author identifies poor returns from crop cultivation as the root cause of farmers’ problems. Using vast temporal and spatial data, the author explores further and attempts to address some very pertinent questions facing Indian agriculture today: What is the current trend in farm income? Are the returns from irrigated crops better than un-irrigated crops? Does increased productivity guarantee increased income? Has the agricultural price policy benefitted farmers? To what extent does rural infrastructure development help in increasing farm income? Has the rural employment guarantee scheme affected farm profitability? The answers will help us determine if we can double farm income by 2022–3, a target set by the present union government.

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