Abstract:
This paper deals with best agricultural practices in India. 70 % Indian people is engaged in
agriculture. The Subsistence and plantation agriculture practices are two major farming systems
in most part of India. Variety of crop cultivated in India such as food crops, commercial crops,
horticultural crops. The major crops grown are Rice (Oryza sativa Linn.), Wheat (Triticum
aeestivum L.), bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris), tea (Camellia sinensis), coconut (Cocos nucifera),
arecanut (Areca catechu), soybean (Glycine max) etc. India cultivates annually 1-3 crops on its
125 million hectares of agricultural land, exclusively depending upon the availability of water for
irrigation. Due to unawareness of the cost: benefit ratio in using modern irrigation practices, out
of available water, almost 60% used in irrigation is wasted. India has different climatic condition
along with different topography and hilly terrain, it is main reason to the farmers predominantly
use drip irrigation practice. For soil fertility different sates has different techniques used. |
