1. Boosting Agriculture
Productivity
SOWING PROSPERITY
Coordinated By-
Anuj Deep Yadav
Team Members:
-Adarsh Kumar -Anurag Pathak
-Ankit Sharma -Pranjal Srivastava

2. Outline
Our Agriculture : A Glimpse
View of Obstacles
Drought & Rainfall effected Zones of INDIA
Insufficient irrigation for agricultural needs
Less sufficient encouragement Plans in
Agricultural Employment & Research
Monitoring & Banking Problems
Proposal to Overcome Obstacles
Unitisation of Rivers:
Implementation & Impact
MGNREGA, Forming Committees, Promoting
Agricultural Education & Research
Challenges and Mitigation Factors

3. Our Agriculture : A Glimpse
• 70% of India population is dependent on cultivation. Out of the total sown
area, 60% is dependent on the rainfall, thus prone to floods and droughts.
Dependence on
Agriculture
• Between 1990 and 2010, the contribution of agriculture to India’s GDP
showed a rapid decline from 30% to 14.5%. However, the share of
workforce employed in agriculture showed only a marginal fall from
59.9% to 53.2%. The growth rate for agricultural sector during the 11th
FYP was 3.5% as opposed to the overall economic growth rate of 8.2%.
India’s GDP
decline from 30%
to 14.5%
• As 43% of land in India, is used for farming but contributes only 18% of
the nation’s GDP. The rural farmers in India suffer from poverty and
most of them are illiterate so there is lack of good extension services.
Poverty and illiteracy
of Farmers
• Measures for flood mitigation were taken from 1950 onwards. As against
the total of 40 million hectares prone to floods, area of about 18.22
million hectares has been protected by construction of embankments.
Flood Prone Areas
• The decade to 2020 will be a watershed for Indian agriculture. The Indian
government believes 4% growth in agricultural gross domestic product is
necessary not only to achieve the nation’s overall target 9% growth but also
to reduce poverty.
Future prediction

4. View of Obstacles
Random flood and
drought situations
occurred in INDIA,are the
most influencing problems
for our agriculture.
India has a lot of
diversity in its monsoon
& Weather, there are a lot
of cultivated land, which
are affected by the
random flood and
drought.
Data to compare Flood & Drought resemblance :

5. Drought & Rainfall affected Zones of INDIA
The annual
monsoon season is
due and – given
that the country’s
mostly rain-fed
agriculture makes
up 15 percent of
gross domestic
product.
Hundreds of
millions of
Indians
dependent on it –
these rains are a
serious business.
Drought Prone Area Flood Prone Area

6. Insufficient Irrigation for
Agricultural Needs
 So Indian agriculture needs a alternative source to plough our fields-
but it has insufficient irrigation.
There are huge variations in monsoon, according to data presented:
Deprivation of Irrigation Projects in INDIA
Public Expenditure on Irrigation and Flood control

7. Less sufficient encouragement Plans in
Agricultural Employment & Research
Status of Indian agricultural
workers across the INDIA.
Reduction in development of
agricultural education &
research.

8. Monitoring & Banking Problems
Indiscipline & Lack of coordination between
farmers & District Monitoring authorities.
Agricultural Loan related problems like
high Interest rate, and tough process of
recovery.
Decreasing contribution of public sector
banks in agriculture.

9. Proposal to Overcome Obstacles
Small level
committees
• Formation of small level committees of farmers, Grampradhans, delegates of Banks and
members of district authorities to develop coordination and support among those member
for development of agriculture at Unit level.
Agricultural
Education &
Research
• Encourage the agricultural educations and empirical research in agriculture by providing,
attractive scholarships and employment chances.
Unitisation
of rivers
• To manage randomness of floods and droughts in different zones of country at a time.It
may also help to develop alternative irrigation facilities across the country according to
need of WATER for harvesting in different cultivated lands.
MGNREGA
• Increasing agricultural employment and beneficial provisions in Govt. schemes, like
MGNREGA. Govt. should provide agricultural and harvesting to the unemployed people
on the unused Govt. and Gramsabha land, by which Govt. would find extra grains and
crop which boost INDIAN economy as well as agricultural productivity.

10. Unitisation of Rivers:
Implementation
Form a committee of environmentalists
and civil engineer to know about the future
aspects and marginalise the amount.
Priorities the Zones first and then rivers
according to flood and drought situations.
Add the rivers as our broad scale
management and resources efficiently.
Non functioning canals should be taken
upto the level of functioning
According to our point of view,this
program will consume about 1000crores
Rs fund.
Impact
We may control the drought and flood
in INDIA.
We can provide a broad scale
irrigation facility to our farmers.
We may reduce the investment of
farmers as they use tubewell,
sprinklers, etc.by providing irrigations
through Canals.
We can cover 64% of those cultivated
land which depend upon monsoon
only.

11. MGNREGA :
Implementation
Involvement of Grampradhan
and agriculture officer to
provide employment under the
MGNREGA.
Try to involve more number of
employees in the forming and
seeds-formation in
MGNREGA.
Use of govt. lands which are
not used for any fruitful
purpose.
The production under the
scheme is totally governmental
fund of grains.
Produced grains may use again
and again as seeds.
Impact
Area of cultivated land will
increase.
Production by agriculture will also
increase.
Overall profit goes to government
which will rise GDP so that
economy also.
Agriculture will also be attractive
for employment for unemployed
persons.

12. Forming Committees, Promoting
Agricultural Education & Research
Implementation
Provide fund for scholarships & infrastructure
for agricultural research according to a
committee which will suggest requirement of
fund in this research enhancement programme.
Provide new syllabus for agricultural studies in
present scenario.
World class faculty and experienced farmers take
part in events for the purpose of exposure to
students of agriculture and provide basic
guidelines of development in agricultural streams.
Easy and cheap education should be provided to
students.
Curriculum of school level education should
contains the agricultural units for the primary
level understanding and aptitude.
Impact
Employment increases in the field of
agriculture so it encourage people to join
agriculture and it will increase percent
of human labour in agriculture.
New types of seeds should be invented
(like hybrid seeds) which can be used
again and again for agriculture so that
expenditure of agriculture.
These new type of seeds provide a large
scope of production in agriculture, So
that productivity will also enhance.
Farmers will get easily and low cost
composts and fertilizers for enhancing
production without disturbing soil
productivity ,so that productivity in
agriculture will also increase.

13. Challenges and Mitigation Factors
To aware people
that unitisation of
rivers is for
development and
welfare of country,
it will not hurt any
spiritual feeling.
It is a broad scale
project which will
consume a lot of
time and money so
all political parties
and people of
INDIA should
support the
government.
We should also
understand the
effects created by
this plan on the
nature and prepare
alternatives for any
type of future
problem.
Government
should identify the
needy population,
reasonable land
and good
monitoring of this
scheme of
employment under
the MGNREGA.
Youth should be
encouraged by giving
good career
opportunities ( research,
teaching, managing
etc.) in agriculture, so
that they opt the option
of study of agriculture
instead of engineering
and medical.

14. Appendix
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