National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Agriculture is a way of life and is the single most important livelihood of the Indian rural population. The focus of agricultural policy in India over the decades has been on self-sufficiency and self-reliance in food grains production. A considerable progress has been made on this front. Food grains production enhanced from 52 mt (1951-52) to 244.78 mt (2010-11). During the last fifty year period (1960-61 to 2010-11), food grains production grew at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 2 percent (Economic survey 2011-12), but it is far behind from the goal? Situation is even worse in fodder, where deficit is about 34 per cent. On one side total cultivated area is shrinking on the other hand food, fodder and feed demand is increasing as the human and cattle population is increasing. This forces us to follow the path of sustainable agriculture which can also take care of food, feed and fodder security and nutritional security the rising demand of the 1.2 billion people for food.
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