ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 7

Challenges, opportunities and prospects of crop diversification

  • Author:
  • Rajni Kant, Robin Kumar
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 225 to 232

Assistant Professor, A.S. College, Khanna, Punjab, India

Online published on 22 September, 2015.

Abstract

Crop diversification is considered as an important tool for acceleration of agricultural growth in India by promoting food and nutritional security, income and employment generation, poverty alleviation, judicious use of natural resources and ecological management. Important factors determining crop diversification, pattern of crop diversification, and problems and prospects associated with crop diversification are discussed in this paper.