Year: 2015 | Month: September | Volume 4 | Issue 2 and 3
Challenges in Indian Agriculture and its Implications for Organizing Extension
Abstract:
India’s economic security is heavily dependent on agriculture. About half of India’s population is either wholly or significantly dependant for their livelihoods on some form of farm activity – be it crop agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry or fisheries. Although the Green Revolution increased production and productivity of food crops, improved food security and raised rural incomes, India still has a large
poor (27.5 per cent of the population living below the poverty line based on 2004-05 data) and malnourished population.
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