Agriculture

  1. Agriculture: as is the now renowned fact that Nano suspensions can do wonders for soil
    nutrition instead of powders. The foliation as is being increased research and
    experimentation will place us in the top of high-tech agriculture with the world. Equipped
    with worlds
  2. As per the Land Use Statistics 2014- 15, the total geographical area of the
    country is 328.7 million hectares, of which 140.1 million hectares is the
    reported net sown area and 198.4 million hectares is the gross cropped area
    with a cropping intensity of 142%. The net area sown works out to be 43% of
    the total geographical area. The net irrigated area is 68.4 million hectares
  3. Over 45 years the number of farms in India more than doubled from 71 million in 1971 to
    145 million in 2016, while the average farm size more than halved from 2.28 hectares to
    1.08 hectares. 86% of India’s farmers are categorized as ‘small and marginal’, meaning they
    own less than 2 hectares
    India Agriculture Compares with The World
  4. In 2017, 18% of Chinese were employed in agriculture compared to 43% of Indians,
    according to World Bank data. Over 26 years till 2017, the proportion fell 37 bps in China,
    while in India it fell 21 bps, keeping India above the world average of 26.4% of people
    employed in agriculture. India’s spending on agriculture research (as a percentage of
    agriculture GDP) is 0.3%. China, the US, Brazil, and South Africa spent 2x, 4x, 6x and 10x
    more than India [agriculture industry in India], respectively.