AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

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CROPS GROWN IN THE FOLLOWING PERIODS

3500 B.C

4000 B.C

6000 B.C

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2500B. C The Indus Plain had

q

rich alluvial deposits which came down the Indus River in annual floods. qThis helped sustain farming that formed basis of the Indus Valley Civilization at Harappa. q The people built dams and drainage systems for the crops.

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2000 B.C
Tea, bananas and apples were being cultivated in India. q There was coconut trade with East Africa in 200 BC. qBy 500 AC, brinjals were being cultivated.
q

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After independence, considering India's growing population, the government took steps to increase the food production. Yields per unit area of all crops have grown since 1950. The 1970s saw a huge increase in India's wheat 4/29/12 production. This

Green the increase in production needed to make India selfsufficient in food grains, thus improving agriculture in India. Famines in India, once accepted as inevitable, have not returned since the 4/29/12

Reasons for the growth are: the special emphasis placed on agriculture steady improvements in irrigation technology application of modern agricultural

There were

three basic elements in

the method of the Green Revolution :Continued expansion of farming areas; Doublecropping existing farmland; Using seeds with improved genetics.

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Green Revolution in India, which improved the condition of agriculture in India by increasing productivity of food as well as commercial crops, improving crop patterns and strengthening forward and backward linkages between agriculture and industry. Also to help the cooperative sector to develop new and improved existing seeds also to develop scientific agricultural institutions. This program was mainly done in order to bring about a tripling in the wheat production, increase in rice production thus basically

WHITE REVOLUTION IN INDIA

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Operation Flood was

the name of a rural development programme started by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970 with the objective of creating a

nationwide milk grid

This movement followed the and helped in alleviating poverty

and famine levels from dangerous proportions in India during the era. It resulted

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largest producer of milk and milk products, so it is also

in India becoming the

INDIA IS THE LARGEST PRODUCER OF:-

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INDIA HAS THE MAXIMUM CATTLE POPULATION WHICH IS 193 MILLION

.Continuing the flight of success

INDIA RANKS SECOND IN:-

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India accounts for 10 per cent of the world fruit production with first rank in the production of banana and sapota

DESPITE SUCH SKY SOARING ACHIEVEMENTS INDIA ONLY CONTRIBUTED ABOUT 30%-50% OF THE HIGHEST YIELD.

THE REASONS FOR LOW PRODUCTIVITY WERE:Illiteracy general socio-economic backwardness, inadequate or inefficient finance and marketing services for farm produce. The average size of land holdings is very small (less than 20,000 m) Adoption of modern agricultural practices and use of technology is inadequate 4/29/12 hampered by ignorance of