Advantages Of Mechanization

Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Agriculture was always been and is an important aspect of Indian economy. India, a second most populous country with a population of nearly 1.21 billion according to 2011 census, is still facing a challenge of feeding its growing population for which increasing food production is mandatory. Agricultural productivity and farm mechanization goes hand in hand, so to increase the productivity, mechanization is an obvious choice. Indian agronomist understood that only human and animal power was not sufficient to achieve high productivity and adopted new techniques in late 1960s which resulted into famous Green Revolution. These new techniques consisted of importing high yield variety (HYV) seeds, irrigation, fertilizers and mechanization. In this report, we are concerned about mechanization facet in Indian context. From time to time, mechanization techniques have been adopted in developing countries like India and were much criticized due to their inefficient performance. Besides not performing as per the expectations, mechanization further blamed for aggravating rural employment and other adverse social effects. At the same time, there are plenty of examples where mechanization has been very much successful increasing food production, productivity as well as helped rural economies to advance. To pick up only the advantages to the maximum level possible, appropriate mechanization is the key. Indian agriculture is known for millions of small and marginal