{"id":160760,"date":"2022-01-11T21:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=160760"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:06:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:36:46","slug":"answered-what-are-the-present-challenges-before-crop-diversification-how-do-emerging-technologies-provide-opportunity-for-crop-diversification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-are-the-present-challenges-before-crop-diversification-how-do-emerging-technologies-provide-opportunity-for-crop-diversification\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] What are the present challenges before crop diversification? How do emerging technologies provide opportunity for crop diversification?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crop diversification refers to the addition of new crops or cropping systems to agricultural production on a particular farm taking into account the different returns in socio-economic and environmental terms. Due to diverse set of climates, soil types and cultures, India has diverse range of cropping systems.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The challenges before crop diversification:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Impact of Green Revolution: There has been shift towards Mono cropping of wheat and rice at cost of coarse grains (Government policy of MSP).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Monsoon Dependence: Around 55% of India’s Cultivable Land is Rain-fed\u00a0with heavy dependence on monsoon.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Fragmented land holding: It makes it difficult to use efficient modern technology on large scale, raises cost of land boundary management, land disputes etc.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Shift from Food crops to Commercial Crops: This especially includes Cotton in\u00a0Deccan belt; and Sugarcane in Green revolution belt and Krishna-Godavari basin.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Other Factors:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n
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    1. Human factors: Heavy Population Pressure on agriculture and continuation of subsistence farming<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Technical Factors: Lack of High Yielding Varieties (HYV) of seeds, usage of old implements, lack of weather forecasting usage amongst others.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Institutional factors: It includes defective land tenure system (leading to land fallowing), improper marketing and processing of perishable products (e.g\u00a0vegetables, fruits).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Infrastructural Factors: Poor basic infrastructure like rural roads, power, transport, communications etc. Along with inadequate post-harvest processing infrastructure.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Emerging Technologies and opportunities\u00a0provided by them:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. IT Revolution: It is helping to connect farmers directly with grocery-customers\u00a0( farm\u00a0to fork model) leading to cultivation of high value perishable\u00a0products (e.g\u00a0Big Basket,\u00a0BlinkIt\u00a0startup platforms)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Aquaponics and Urban Farming: To meet the heavy urban demand for\u00a0Persisahble\u00a0items, this technique of controlled environment cultivation is helping in crop diversification.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. Financial Inclusion and Digitization: It has helped small farmers, women SHGs to ensure crop diversification through credit supply.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      4. Irrigation: PM Krishi Sinchai Yojna has ensured access to micro irrigation (Per Drop More Crop), drip irrigation, sprinklers etc.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      5. Dryland Agriculture: Indo-Israel Agriculture Project has introduced technologies like Urea Deep Placement (UDP), Poly-bag\u00a0Nursery farming\u00a0etc\u00a0in arid areas(e.g\u00a0Rajasthan has seen cultivation\u00a0of strawberries and olives).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      6. Soil Health Management: It has helped ensuring right Fertilizer usage, developing Organic Framing, providing GIS based thematic mapping for\u00a0soil.(e.g.\u00a0Soil Health Card)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Thus, these emerging technologies should be made integral part of Mission to double farmer’s income by 2022 as recommended by Ashok\u00a0Dalwai\u00a0Committee.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Crop diversification refers to the addition of new crops or cropping systems to agricultural production on a particular farm taking into account the different returns in socio-economic and environmental terms. Due to diverse set of climates, soil types and cultures, India has diverse range of cropping systems.\u00a0 The challenges before crop diversification:\u00a0 Impact of Green… Continue reading [Answered] What are the present challenges before crop diversification? How do emerging technologies provide opportunity for crop diversification?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":143,"cached_at":1698386244,"cached_date":1698662133},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}