INDUSTRIALISATION OF AGRICULTURE.

The size of India's population started going up especially after the country attained freedom from the British rule in 1947. At first the rising demand for food was met through subsidised imports from the United States. In the mid-1960s, the state took several measures to raise food production. Knowledge of the improved agricultural innovations was extended. Irrigation facilities reduced the dependence on rainfall. High-yielding varieties of seeds, chemical fertilisers, insecticides, were made available. With the adoption of agricultural innovations, the price incentive was effectively utilised for raising food production in some regions like Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh and parts of Andhra. Multiple cropping raised the demand for agricultural labour. The social costs of industrialisation are heavy. Industrialisation of agriculture shifts the prevailing loyalities and privileges hem and there. The existing social and geographical boundaries become contested. Income, status and power of the various segments of society are readjusted.