Table of Contents:
- Agricultural intensity
- Why Agricultural Intensity is very much needed in India
- How to increase the agricultural intensity
- Regional Distribution of agricultural intensity
UPSC Questions:
- Define agricultural intensity and bring out its regional distribution in India. ( 2016)
What is Agricultural Intensity?
Agricultural intensity means net sown areas are used to grow crops more than once in one agriculture year.
The agricultural intensity in percentage = (Gross cropping areas/Net sown areas)*100
Gross cropping Areas= Net sown areas * number of crops grown in one agriculture year
In India;
- Gross crop areas=194.4 Million hectares
- Net Sown areas=139.9 Million hectares
Agriculture intensity of India in percentage=(194.4/139.9)*100= 138.9 %
Why Agricultural Intensity is very much needed in India?
The following table shows the land availability over time;
|
Land Categories |
1960-61 |
2008-09 |
|
Net Sown Area |
45.26% |
46.24 % |
|
Culturable wasteland |
6.23 % |
4.17% |
|
Current Fallow land |
3.73 % |
4.76% |
|
Fallow other than current fallow |
3.50 % |
3.37% |
|
Total Cultivable land |
58.72 |
58.54 |
|
India population |
45.96 crores |
121.77 crores |
From the above table it is clear:
- We have limited cultivated land and total cultivable land decreased from 1960 to 2009 due to growing secondary and tertiary activities in India.
- The population has increased approx 5 times from 1960 to 2009.
- Food demand is increasing due to the growing population
The following fact is very much true;
- Agriculture is a purely land-based activity unlike secondary and tertiary industries
- Lack of access to land is directly related to poverty in rural India
- Quality of land is directly related to the productivity of agriculture
- Land ownership has social values
As we can not increase the net sown areas of the country due to limited land resources, modern agriculture technology is needed to increase food grains production; It can be used in two ways:
- Raise the productivity of crops per unit area.
- Total output is increased by intense farming technology
The second one is a good choice as India is a labor surplus country with limited land. It will serve two purposes:
- Increase production
- Reduce unemployment in rural areas.
- The way to increase agricultural intensity:
- Increase the irrigation infrastructure to assured irrigation
- Increase the fertilizer infrastructure
- Use of drip and sprinkle irrigation method to save water and increase productivity
- Use different cropping patterns such as mixed cropping, intercropping, relay cropping, and crop rotation in order to increase productivity and intensity.
- Punjab and Haryana
- Ganga and Assam Plains
- Coastal Plains
- Peninsular river Valley
- Define agricultural intensity and bring out its regional distribution in India. ( UPSC 2016, 150 words, 10 marks)
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