08-16-2017, 09:08 PM
Agriculture Scenario in India: India's economic security
continues to predicate upon the agriculture sector, and the
situation is not likely to change in the future. Even now
agriculture supports 58 /s of the population, as against
about 75% at the time of independence. As of today, India
supports 16.8% of world's population on 4.2% of world's
water resources and 2.3% of global land. The country
recorded impressive achievements in agriculture during
three decades since the onset of green revolution in late
sixties. This enabled the country to overcome widespread
hunger and starvation; achieve self-sufficiency in food;
reduce poverty and bring economic transformation in
millions of rural families. The situation, however, started
turning adverse for the sector around mid-nineties, with
slowdown in growth rate of output, which then resulted in
stagnation or even decline in farmer's income leading to
agrarian distress, which is spreading and turning more
and more serious. Natural resource is the base of agriculture, which provides for sustainable production, is
shrinking and degrading, and is adversely affecting
production capacity of the ecosystem. However, demand
for agriculture is rising rapidly with increase in population
and per caput income and growing demand from industry
sector. There is, thus, an urgent need to identify severity of
problem confronting agriculture sector to restore its
vitality and put it back on higher growth trajectory. The
problems, however, are surmountable, particularly when
new tools of science and technology have started offering
tremendous opportunities for application in agriculture.
The Equipment Our equipment is especially made to work
in row crops such as cotton pulses etc. of an agricultural
field. The economic condition of farmers and the cost of
labor, owing to such conditions, this equipment can find its
application. The equipment is intended to perform three
important operations done in fields, namely, Spraying
pesticide, spraying herbicide and applying urea. All the
three operations can be performed simultaneously or
individually. Application of urea to the crops is not being
focused much by various agriculture equipment producing
firm and the equipment available are mostly suitable for
large field which are in hectors. Moreover, whatever
methods are available for applying urea results in high
wastage of urea, we have focused on the same.
