Seventy-Five Years of Agricultural Development

Abstract: The agricultural sector plays a vital role in the Indian economy by generating employment, providing food to the growing population, contributing to capital formation, supplying raw materials to agro-based industries, providing a market for industrial products, and providing trade. The allied sectors like livestock, fisheries, horticulture, forestry, sericulture, dairy, and poultry farming are linked with the agriculture sector. This paper covers the development of the agricultural sector of last seven decades. After independence, the agricultural sector has seen a lot of developments in seeds, technology, fertilizers, micronutrients, pesticides, herbicides, GPS, robotic farming, block chain, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, data analytics, etc. But it’s not free from crisis as well. During the last seventy- five years agricultural sector has gone through so many crises. Most of the population of the country depends on agriculture, and doing it for so many years, they are still not satisfied with the income and productivity of agriculture. If they are not satisfied, this is the failure of the government of India. So this paper analyses causes of the agrarian distress and farmers’ dissatisfaction. Government of India has implemented so many policies for the development of agricultural sector and farmers. This paper also covers the alternatives, which are essential for optimizing the agrarian distress and farmers’ dissatisfaction.