Income through agriculture for Tamil Nadu Families

Agriculture is the mainstay of Indian economy because about 67% of our population depends directly or indirectly on agriculture. ii It provides raw materials to the industries. iii India earns foreign exchange by exporting agricultural products. iv It contributes about 29% to the gross domestic product.

While agriculture’s share in India’s economy has progressively declined to less than 15% due to the high growth rates of the industrial and services sectors, the sector’s importance in India’s economic and social fabric goes well beyond this indicator. First, nearly three-quarters of India’s families depend on rural incomes. Second, the majority of India’s poor (some 770 million people or about 70 percent) are found in rural areas. And third, India’s food security depends on producing cereal crops, as well as increasing its production of fruits, vegetables and milk to meet the demands of a growing population with rising incomes. To do so, a productive, competitive, diversified and sustainable agricultural sector will need to emerge at an accelerated pace.

India is a global agricultural powerhouse. It is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices, and has the world’s largest cattle herd (buffaloes), as well as the largest area under wheat, rice and cotton. It is the second largest producer of rice, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, farmed fish, sheep & goat meat, fruit, vegetables and tea. The country has some 195 m ha under cultivation of which some 63 percent are rainfed (roughly 125m ha) while 37 percent are irrigated (70m ha). In addition, forests cover some 65m ha of India’s land.

The problem is nowadays men and women are not that much interested in agriculture. Youth from rural and urban are given exposure and training in practicing agricuture. We are successfully achieveing good amount of people in agriculture and we have started a model farm to give training for Youth and latest techniques in agriculture to all rural farmers who lack in getting information about the latest techniques.

Its our own duty to make this earth a greener one through organic farming.

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