International Research Journal of Education and Technology

After getting independence our country wanted to become self sufficient in food production. It achieved self sufficient in food production by using high yielding variety seeds/ hybrid seeds, water and synthetic/chemical fertilizers and pesticides. One may call these kind agricultural practices as conventional farming. Because of these practices the food production increased by 34 because. However farmers’ income did not increase. On the contrary most of farmer’s especially small and marginal farmers became indebted during the same period. This is because conventional farming requires heavy investments and also due to vagaries of whether and swings in the price fluctuations. Dependence on agriculture by the households is to the extent of 50% including causal labour and self employed in agriculture (2017-18, Periodic Labour Force Survey). Because of the above factors farmers’ agitations and suicides are in the new.