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Over a period of 65 years, Dr M
S Swaminathan has worked in
collaboration with scientists and
policy-makers on a wide range
of problems in basic and applied
plant genetics and agricultural
R&D. He is considered a global
scientist of rare distinction because
of the indelible mark he has made
on food production in India and
elsewhere in the developing world. Government of India has fixed an
ambitious target for making the
farmers income double in the next
five years. To achieve this target,
the out of box initiative has been
taken instead of traditional system.
The declining share of agriculture
doesn’t mean that the absolute
value of agriculture is dropping.
It only means that the overall
size of the economy is growing.
All you have to do is to plot over
time the share of agriculture
of few agriculture dependent
countries in last 100 years. An important yet neglected
aspect of Indian agriculture is the
mechanization of the sector. While
other sectors grow through continual
adoption of more modern technology
and access to improved production
methods, the mechanization levels in
agriculture have remained stagnant
technologically for almost 20 years.
Radha Mohan Singh, Union
Agriculture Minister
Pranab Mukherjee,
President of India
Dr Prabhu L Pingali, Professor
of Applied Economics and
Director, Tata-Cornell Institute
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Jay Singh, Managing Director,
CLAAS Agricultural Machinery