Indian agriculture in the changing environment
Edited by Raj Kapila & Uma Kapila
Academic Foundation
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Foodgrain production alone is no longer a valid yardstick for measuring the performance or the progress of agriculture in India. That is because the composition of the farm sector has changed spectacularly over the decades, pushing down the weightage of foodgrains in overall farm output. The changes have been rapid after the 1970s. Though the green revolution was initially confined to food crops, notably wheat and rice, the non-foodgrain sector has not been unaffected by its impact subsequently. This was probably the result of the importance that technology acquired as an instrument for higher productivity and profit.
Indeed, the post-green revolution era has been marked by an acceleration in the generation and deployment of technology in almost all facets of the country
