Of the over 17 crores rural households in India, approx. 9 crores households are engaged in farming. The average farming family has five members, thereby near 45 crores people directly dependent on farming. However this farming community has been struggling in recent times, with farmer suicides, debt, drought and very recently heavy rains with ice balls of big sizez and also a lack of development a regular cause for debate and discussion.
Positive action in agriculture is therefore the need of the hour, with a pressing urgency to help curb issues that have devastated this essential sector and consequentially led to scant development in rural India.Nothing is happening to protect farmers from climatological vageries,as no research or no innovative idea/ discussions took place and most of the govt budget is for plant breeding,hybrid seeds,and other areas of research done in the laboratories but no efforts for these real pain causing and penniless making factors are done. Are we agricultural professionals so weak?
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