Diversification of agriculture in India: Challenges ahead

Abstract

Agriculture in its present form face challenges to meet the growing needs of the Indian population and therefore warrants convergence of policies and technologies to handhold the farmer for increased production, productivity and income. Therefore, diversification has been dealt as a way out to address the above challenge and to provide a kind of safety-net for the Indian farms and farming communities. The changes over the last few decades with respect to crop diversification has been addressed to indicate the potential in the scenario of reduced land availability and also the need for diversifying Indian agricultural systems to make it more remunerative while balancing the ecological principles of conservation and diversity.