10th Class Social Science Agriculture Question Bank 10th CBSE Social Science Agriculture

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      Discuss the reason for which our agricultural sector is dominated by intensive subsistence farming.

    Answer:

                      Agriculture in India depend not only on geo-climatic conditions but also socio-cultural practices. Through law of inheritance, the limited arable land is fragmented through successive generations and now average individual land holding reduced to an uneconomic position. Land holdings are not only reduced but also became fragmented. So, technological application is not viable for the farmers. Huge population along with high amount of domestic animal depend on this limited agricultural land. So farmers use intensive irrigation and put bio-chemical inputs to draw more production and the ceaseless exploitation of land without adequate measures for replenishment gradually reduce productivity. Less   awareness   about   modern   technology institutional limitations and bureaucratic apathy in implementation of reform measures compel the  agriculture still depend on intensive subsistence farming. Land is only exploited regularly to sustenance of life not for commercialization or well being. The pattern should be changed as it held occupation of more than 60% of population in India.


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