Question

Suggest your views to increase agricultural productivity

Answer 1

1. To facilitate the farmers to produce new farm inputs and enable them to sell their product in markets, villages should be linked with man dies.
2. Canals, Tube wells should be constructed to provide better irrigation facilities for the security of crops.
3. Adequate credit facilities should be made available at reasonable cheap rates in rural areas.
4. Marketing infrastructure should be widened and strengthened to help farmers to sell their products at better prices.
5. Efforts should be made towards completing the consolidation work with a specific period of time
6. Guidelines and advice could be given to the farmers regarding the adoption of new technology.
7. A proper climate should be generated to encourage the farm people to start employment in the subsidiary occupations. It will help to reduce the population pressure on land.
8. The farmers should be made familiar with the advantage of chemical fertilizer through exhibitions and these inputs should be made easily available through co-operative societies and panchayats.
9. To check up the subdivision and fragmentation of holding, the movement of co-operative farming should be launched.
10. In rural areas, more emphasis should be made to set up cottage and small-scale industries.