Agricultural Economics Research Review
Year : 2012, Volume : 25, Issue : conf
First page : ( 535) Last page : ( 535)
Print ISSN : 0971-3441. Online ISSN : 0974-0279.

An Open View on Re-Construction Measures to Sustain Indian Agriculture

Sastry S.V. Srinivasa, Pandaraiah G.

Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh

Online published on 9 October, 2012.

Abstract

This study has attempted to understand the institutional scenario of Indian agriculture. It is dominated by small-farm cultivation of nearly 40 per cent of cultivated land and dryland farming. The land policy in India has undergone broadly four phases since Independence. Land reforms were in the forefront in the first and longest phase (1950–1972). Next, Bhoodan movement was a refined measure by which the land procured was more than land surrendered to various state governments at the point of time under the much publicized Land Ceiling Laws throughout the country. Green revolution was another fore step but destined to paddy and wheat. Supplementary to this, 1990–2000 was not a contented decade for Indian agriculture where proceed was half of its earlier decade. It questioned the food security and availability of foodgrain to various vulnerable sections which enlarged the need of technical cropping instead of dumping technology in farming resulting ‘sri vari’. Huge public investments in dryland agriculture, including agricultural research and rural infrastructure, development of sophisticated techniques for predicting and forecasting climate changes, facilitating collective action of cultivators and rural agro-pro institutions and natural resource management should be robustly initiated along with an institutional refresh.

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Keywords

Indian agriculture, sustainability, land reforms.

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