New Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture Development

The value-driven pillars of an economy are the tri-sectors viz.: the primary (agriculture), the secondary (industry), and the tertiary (service). Of these, the agricultural sector has been overlooked due to the charisma of the industrial sector in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while it was once again ignored owing to the intellectual chutzpah of the service sector. All the same, the power of the agriculture sector could not overlooked for long, as it is the sector which feeds all the other sectors. This paper studies the existing problems of agriculture in the Indian context and comes out with ideas to overcome the same in terms of not just for the present, but also to carry forward the ideas progressively in a sustainable fashion.