What are the three traditional handicaps in Indian Agriculture - Social Science -

Question

What are the three traditional handicaps in Indian
Agriculture????

P. Sujatha · Accepted Answer

Some of the traditional handicaps in Indian
Agriculture are

1) High cost of farm inputs
– Cost of farm inputs like fertilizer, pesticides,
HYV seeds, etc have increased manifold in the recent years which is
not affordable to small farmers

2) Soil Exhaustion – Green
revolution has reduced hunger in India but it has its own negative
issues Soil exhaustion is one such issue which leads to loss of
nutrients in the soil through farming of the same crop over and
over again

3) Depletion of fresh ground water
table – Due to extensive use of chemical fertilizers
and pesticides, irrigation is carried on by using ground water
table excessively If this condition persists, states which practice
green revolution would face water scarcity in the
future

What are the three traditional handicaps in Indian Agriculture????