Adaptive Skilling through Action Research (ASAR) – (2019)

. February 21, 2020

Agriculture engages around 49 percent of the total workforce whereas the share of agriculture in total output of the country is gradually decreasing. Currently it is around 16%. As India is hardly left with any more additional land for cultivation, only way to increase gross output is to take more crops from same land. Hybrid/high yielding seeds, pesticides, fertiliser, fossil-fuel led mechanization and irrigation have been the prime movers so far addressing the issue of agriculture production. Though it has, to some extent, addressed the issue of productivity, farmers are facing new problems of soil quality degradation, water scarcity, health hazards, ecological instability etc.

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  1. Subrata Kundu says:

    Please send the book.

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