Distorted Cropping Pattern in India: Effects and Remedies

During colonial times, India was infested with frequent droughts and famines that resulted in widespread hunger and mortality. It forced post independent India to adopt self-sufficiency in food grain production at high priorityand ushered measures such as Green revolution, which was largely successful asevident by record food grain production of recent times. But this scientific intervention has an undesirable outcome i.e. Distortion in cropping pattern of India largely due to faulty agricultural policies.

Cropping pattern means the proportion of area under various crops at a point of time. In other words, agricultural land devoted to different crops in a region or ....