Status and Prospects of Occupational Agriculture in Eastern Uttar Pradesh

Authors(1) :-Brijmohan Singh Yadav

India is still a country with agricultural economy. Because over 50 percent of the population is engaged in agriculture and related activities, so without the development of agriculture and farmers, Indian economy can not be enriched. Considering the importance of this matter, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has targeted to double the income of the farmers by 2022 and said to give special attention to 7 points to achieve them, in which a major effort was to develop and expand the commercial agriculture. 1, specially focusing on the production of animal husbandry, rearing of post harvest facilities and production of cash crops. The target to be achieved by 2022 goal of doubling the income of farmers. There is also wide potential in UP in terms of commercial agriculture. Uttar Pradesh is one of the leading states of India, due to the appropriate agricultural climate, fertile alluvial plains has grown substantially due to agricultural activity, but 'commercial agriculture (under which the farmers produce fruits, flowers, vegetables, spices and other cash crops for excessive profit As well as animal husbandry.) Has not been developed according to the capabilities of the state. Especially in eastern Uttar Pradesh, the situation of commercial agriculture is also pathetic, where commercial agriculture is done only for only 10.52 percent of the total cultivated land, whereas its percentage at the state level is 22.46 percent and in western Uttar Pradesh it is 34 percent. Their productivity in eastern Uttar Pradesh is also lower than the above.

Authors and Affiliations

Brijmohan Singh Yadav
Research Student, Geography Department, Lucknow University, Lucknow (UP), India

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 7 | September-October 2017
Date of Publication : 2017-10-31
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 1083-1087
Manuscript Number : IJSRST1736233
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

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Brijmohan Singh Yadav, " Status and Prospects of Occupational Agriculture in Eastern Uttar Pradesh", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 3, Issue 7, pp.1083-1087, September-October-2017.
Journal URL : https://ijsrst.com/IJSRST1736233
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