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Seeding Success through Innovation & Technology: Role of Innovations in Transforming Indian Agriculture

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Title Seeding Success through Innovation & Technology:
Role of Innovations in Transforming Indian Agriculture
 
Creator Sharma, K K
Mazumdar, S D
Karuppanchetty, S M
Aravazhi, S
Yaduraju, N T
Bhatnagar-Mathur, P
Tripathi, S M
Philroy, J
Palaniswamy, S
Nancy, D
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Agriculture remains the most important sector for India, vital for ensuring its food and nutritional
security. From an economic perspective, the sector provides livelihood means to over 58 percent
of the nation’s population, while contributing 14 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
by providing bulk of the wage goods required by non-agriculture sectors, and most of the raw
materials for the industries. The Green Revolution and the transformation it brought about to this
sector helped in easing poverty, and proved that agricultural development has a direct role in
improving the livelihood of the people and the society.
However, despite its importance, various indicators from the sector show that all is not well.
Across the world, the challenges facing the sector are immense: declining natural resources,
smaller landholdings and lesser area for cultivation, erratic monsoons, climate change crisis,
energy crisis, loss of biodiversity, weak extension machinery, rising input costs, inadequate
storage infrastructure, high post-harvest losses, and lack of access to markets. There is also an
urgent need to promote the competitiveness of this sector and gearing up our agricultural systems
including technological aspects so as to meet the pressures of consumer demand and
international markets.
 
Date 2012
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6209/1/FICCI_FOOD_360_Knowledge_Report.pdf
Sharma, K K and Mazumdar, S D and Karuppanchetty, S M and Aravazhi, S and Yaduraju, N T and Bhatnagar-Mathur, P and Tripathi, S M and Philroy, J and Palaniswamy, S and Nancy, D (2012) Seeding Success through Innovation & Technology: Role of Innovations in Transforming Indian Agriculture. In: Food 360°: International Conference-cum-Exhibition on Agribusiness and Food Processing, Nov 05-06, 2012, Hotel Taj Krishna, Hyderabad.