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Indian agriculture Vs Western Agricultue

Indian agricultural methodology is totally different from western methodology. Moreover there is a drastic difference in quantity and also in quality of the output.

In India percentage of population involved in agriculture is more than 70% percent. In western countries is not more than 5 to 10 percentage. But western’s quality and quantity of output is at pinnacle compare to low productivity of India. The number of hectares involved in India is more than western. The area of landmarks and manpower investment India is more than western agricultural. We work hard though, we earn less; they work less but earn more. Why this stark discriminative harvest? Usage of modern technology is the answer. Indian farmers do not apply modern technologies up to western farmers. All the Indian farmers are not educated, that is one of the reason for their lack of awareness in using modern technologies.

The fast thing to be set right in India is the present system of land ownership. Here only we can see a land lord of one acre, two acre, etc…. even man who possesses below one acre also can survive here. Very hardly we can see a landlord here of 100,200,500… acres of land, this is the main reason hampers the progress of Indian agriculture. In western there is a law to control Land possession. There we cannot see a man who possesses one-or two acres of land. There you must possess of leas 500 acres or 1000 or whatever the government fixes or minimum area of land possession for agriculture. There a man’s land property for agriculture may stretch even for few kilometers. They are forms. In India no forms; only bits of land, that too will be divided in the future for son’s inheritance. Very few farmers has thousands of acres of land in a single stretch.

A small farmer can not implement the modern technology in his tiny bit of land. That is too costly for him to avoid. In western the agriculture is irrigated by modern technologies. Because of this modern technology their yielding is best of both quality and quantity.

How many Indian formers do have tractors? By statistics we can count their percentage out of whole. Even by strict statistics we cannot find single former who does not have tractor in western countries. To maintain such a vast stretch of land tractor is must for them. Tractor is just an example. For all the other modern technologies there is the same case to Indian formers.

Once we change our land ownership system like western country, there is scope for progress. Government should enforce education to farmers in action. The remaining farmers of India after new ownership system may be aware of modern technologies or at least capable of availing them. Those who are thrown out from agriculture can boost the industrial and service sector by their manpower.

Originally written on 19-May-2000