AGRICULTURAL SCENARIO IN HARYANA & LAND USE PATTERN OF HARYANA

Abstract

The Green Revolution was initiated in India in the late 1960s and after that the growth of economy of the country was boosted up. The farmers of the country started using high yield variety seeds to increase the crop production. In the mid-1990s, farmers started to focus on small commercial crop due to many factors such as diminishing farm sizes, fluctuating prices, demands for livelihoods and lack of work in the high agricultural season (Sebby, 2010). During that time the food and nutritional welfare of many poor farmers family have been seriously damaged.

India has done well in the post-change era (since 1991) on a few metrics, such as economic development, external dispatches, payment adjustment, flexibility to external goods, development in the service sector, impressive set of external trade, information technology (IT) and securities trading, upgrades in broadcast communications etc. (Centre for Civil Society, 2020).

After 1991, economic reforms and regulatory approaches have been introduced in India, initially focusing on manufacturing, telecommunication sector, civil aviation, finance and capital markets. This economic reform was absent in informal sectors like street vendors, rikshaw pullers and specially the agricultural sector.

The Government of India, has made a declaration to double the income of farmers by 2022. The decisions and processes for achieving this timely aim are judged by experts. One of the alternatives is to determine the potential to increase the income of farm families within the fair era of the age-old organized cultivation system (Kotadiya, 2021).