Topical Issues and Concerns of Agriculture in India - An Overview

Abstract

Indian agriculture is under the triple burden of degrading natural resource base and increase in the process of purchased inputs, increase in demand for food and feed at affordable cost, and nutritional security of humans and animals in a climate-changing scenario. Hence, despite several innovations and interventions that have taken place, agriculture continuously has several issues and concerns to be addressed to fulfil the demand and expectations. The major concerns in Indian agriculture are defined in terms of food, nutritional and economic security, conservation of plant genetic resources, reducing soil erosion, regulation of seed, input and credit supply system and implementation of a holistic approach to resource management of the agriculture. Besides, agriculture has prospects which include organic, natural and self-resilient farming, changes in the input supply system and marketing system due to interventions such as farmer producer organization, diversification and ecological quantification of agro-ecosystem, energy farming and achieving net zero emission by 2070.