A viewpoint toward agricultural sustainable development programs and experiences of an Indian elite farmer in organic cultivation: lessons for Iran
Journal Title: International Journal of Farming and Allied Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Agriculture, with its allied sectors, is unquestionably the largest livelihood provider in India, more so in the vast rural areas. It also contributes a significant figure to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sustainable agriculture, in terms of food security, rural employment, and environmentally sustainable technologies such as soil conservation, sustainable natural resource management and biodiversity protection, are essential for holistic rural development. Indian agriculture and allied activities have witnessed a green revolution, a white revolution, a yellow revolution and a blue revolution. Agriculture has a significant role in socio-economic fabric of India. Most farms in India are small plots in rural areas. Agriculture in India has a significant history. Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and fisheries accounted for of the GDP in , about of the total workforce. The economic contribution of agriculture to India's GDP is steadily declining with the country's broad-based economic growth. Still, agriculture is demographically the broadest economic sector and plays a significant role in the overall socio-economic fabric of India. Per FAO world agriculture statistics, India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, major spices, select fresh meats, select fibrous crops such as jute, several staples such as millets and castor oil seed. India is the second largest producer of wheat and rice, the world's major food staples. India has some of the world's best agricultural yields in its tea plantations. India is also the world's second or third largest producer of several dry fruits, agriculture-based textile raw materials, roots and tuber crops, pulses, farmed fish, eggs, coconut, sugarcane and numerous vegetables. India ranked within the world's five largest producers of over of agricultural produce items, including many cash crops such as coffee and cotton, in . India is also one of the world's five largest producers of livestock and poultry meat, with one of the fastest growth rates. This article obtained from a brief of key articles and speeches that presented in: (( th NATIONAL EXTENSION EDUCATION CONGRESS- (December - , ) - Organized by Society of Extension Education, Agra Venue: ICAR Research Complex for Goa, Ela, Old Goa - . Goa, India )) that author participated, presented and published an article in that and observations of him in ICAR Research Complex.
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Farhood Golmohammadi , B. S. Rao , Hamid Reza Mohebbipoor
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