Issues of Sustainability in Indian Agriculture

The health of rural economy can be boosted through adoption of sustainable agriculture approach towards development. Large scale efforts are needed to increase production, productivity of agriculture and related products sustainably to be self-reliant and qualitatively feed our huge size of population. The quality of life and income of the farmers needs to be taken care of as it is nation's liability to care for those who feed the nation. Most of our farms are small in size therefore farmer needs more marketable surplus and climate resilient farming techniques. Knowledge, skill based and local natural resource model should be adopted instead of conventional “external input driven”. Gradual withdrawal of chemicals should be done which will boost the natural fauna and flora. The adoption of sustainable agriculture techniques will reduce cost of cultivation, increase yield, increase incomes, increase access to food, help in building social capital and building organic and chemical free villages. The focus should be shifted from mono-cropping to mixed farming. Nutritional status and livelihoods of the population should improve. In the paper thus need and importance of sustainable agriculture has been highlighted and evidences have been cited from various studies through secondary data source and finally impact of sustainable agricultural practices has been concluded.