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Agriculture - Coggle Diagram
Agriculture
Agriculture
Importance
Provide livelihood to 58% of Indian population
Contribute Significantly to GDP and exports
Ensures the supply of food grains and raw materials for industries
Types
Primitive Subsistence Farming
Practised on small patches of land
Uses Traditional methods
Depends on monsoons and natural fertilizers
Intensive Subsistence farming
In Densely Populated areas
Relies on manual labor and small landholding
Commercia Farming
Use modern Technology
Large landholding
Surplus production for sales
Challanges
Dependence on Moonsoons
Land degradation due to overuse of fertilizer and pesticited
Low mechanization and fragmented landholding
Farmer indevtedness and migration to urban areas
Major Crops in India
Sustainable Practices in Agriculture
Organic farming to reduce chemical use
Water-saving techniques like drip irrigation
Crop Rotation and Intercroppign
Technological and Insitutional Reforms
Use of HYV Seeds
Expansion of irrigation facilities
Introduction to farm mechanization
Land reforms like consolidatio of landholdings
Minimum Support Price for crops
Establishment of NABARD