Contribution of agriculture to national economy, employment, output and food security''
"Contribution of agriculture to national economy, employment, output and food security''
Now let's have a look towards how agriculture contributes in national economy and in providing employment. In 2010-2011 about 52% of the total workforce of India was employed in farmsector which includes not just farming but also other agricultural relatedactivities. It is true that India's GDP which is an important indicator of our nation's growth and development. India's GDP has been increasing over the years. However, it is not generating sufficient employment opportunities in the country. Our next topic is Food Security. We willbe looking at what it means.
The government has designed a nationalfood security system to ensure that all citizens have provisions of adequatefood supply and there is no starvation related death or dearth of food. There is a ready government system to tackle these issues. It consists of two components. The first one is having a buffer stock and the second is a public distribution system to ensure that every citizen has access to food. You must have seen FCI a Food Corporation of India. FCI is responsible for procuring and stockingfood grains in large quantities. This is a stock of grains which is very helpful in terms of natural calamity where this reserve canbe used and distributed to the public. If in Orissa we have a high rice plantation the same can be distributed to other states who are not producing rice.
A system is put in place to ensure availability of food crops across allplaces. So PBS is a program which provides food grains and other essentialcommodities through various rural and urban areas at subsidized prices. You allmust be familiar with the concept of a ration card which gives you information about how many family members are there, whether the family is below poverty lineand accordingly food grains, sugar, dal etc. provided at affordable prices. Theprimary objective of national food security is to maintain and ensureavailability of food grains to the common people at affordable price. Additionally the poor should have accessto all food crops. It is responsibility of the government to manage the priceand ensure this access to the poor people. Also government has to try andencourage growth in agricultural production otherwise the prices would goup. When it comes to essential food grains like rice, wheat, dal the pricescannot go up. Government has to be sure to provide support prices so that thereis no corruption and stocks are maintained for the benefit of all. you ow let's have a look towards how agriculture contributes in national economy and in providing employment. In 2010-2011 about 52% of the total workforce of India was employed in farmsector which includes not just farming but also other agricultural relatedactivities. It is true that India's GDP which is an important indicator of our nation's growth and development.
India's GDP has been increasing over the years. However, it is not generating sufficient employment opportunities in the country. Our next topic is Food Security. We willbe looking at what it means. The government has designed a nationalfood security system to ensure that all citizens have provisions of adequatefood supply and there is no starvation related death or dearth of food. There is a ready government system to tackle these issues. It consists of two components. The first one is having a buffer stock and the second is a public distribution system to ensure that every citizen has access to food. You must have seen FCI a Food Corporation of India. FCI is responsible for procuring and stockingfood grains in large quantities. This is a stock of grains which is very helpful in terms of natural calamity where this reserve canbe used and distributed to the public. If in Orissa we have a high rice plantation the same can be distributed to other states who are not producing rice. A system is put in place to ensure availability of food crops across allplaces.
So PBS is a program which provides food grains and other essential commodities through various rural and urban areas at subsidized prices. You allmust be familiar with the concept of a ration card which gives you information about how many family members are there, whether the family is below poverty lineand accordingly food grains, sugar, dal etc. provided at affordable prices. Theprimary objective of national food security is to maintain and ensureavailability of food grains to the common people at affordable price. Additionally the poor should have accessto all food crops. It is responsibility of the government to manage the priceand ensure this access to the poor people. Also government has to try andencourage growth in agricultural production otherwise the prices would goup. When it comes to essential food grains like rice, wheat, dal the pricescannot go up. Government has to be sure to provide support prices so that thereis no corruption and stocks are maintained for the benefit of all.
"Impact of Globalization on Agriculture"
Globalization is a widely discussed topic. It is, therefore, not all that easy to explain. As it's such a complicated term in simple words. Let's start from the beginning with a background to globalization. Advances in technology such as mobile phones, airplanes, telephones and the internet have made the growth of transport and communication networks possible. Amongst other things, this means that people and countries can exchange information and goods more quickly; and in a less complicated way. This process is called "Globalization". Globalization comes from "Globe" and means the worldwide coming together of countries and nations Let's look at an example. Companies used to manufacture products into home countries just like the companies "Profi-TV" and "Supercolor" who produced televisions in Country A.
Now we will be looking at how the global business practices and globalization ingeneral is impacting the Agriculture. Globalization was present at the time ofcolonization. During the British period the food crops from across the world wasspread in India and vice-versa. Cotton was exported to Britain as a rawmaterial for the textile industries. Earlier it was only limited to our own country but with globalization there was exchange of materials across the world. After 1990 the farmers in India havebeen exposed to new challenges under globalization.The agricultural productsin India are not able to compete with that of the developed countries becauseof the highly subsidized agriculture in those countries. Due to these challenges they were not able to export our agricultural produce to other countries. Next with genetic engineering revolutionizing the agricultural production nowadays there has been a boom in agriculture with the use of chemicals. Organic Farming is also in fashion thesedays because it is practiced without factory made chemicals such asfertilizers and pesticides. As it does not affect environment in a negativemanner. In India we have been following the traditional methods of cropping and there has not been much changes but now is the time that we have to diversify in terms of cropping pattern and also types of cereals that we grow. We have to focus more on the high value crops which can give us more return and increase ourincomes. At the same times we have to manage the quality of agricultural production keeping the benefit in mind the quality should not go down.
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