Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2019)
Causes of Agro-ecological crises related to agronomic practices, Agro-forestry, market price and nature of ecological balance faced by farmers of dryland agro-ecosystem: A critical analysis
Author(s): Sanjay Kumar Gupta, DUM Rao and Krishna DK
Abstract: Today, agriculture is passing through a difficult phase. Among the many problems that Indian farmers face today, the most important is agro-ecological crises and these crises become a current challenges to agriculture, destroying the very base of agriculture with unsustainable practices, like enormous use of chemicals pesticides, fertilizers, etc. So these crises in farming sector has increased in the last two decades resulting in large tracts of farm lands reporting crisis is due to the adverse condition of environment. The agrarian crisis has started over powering large tracts of drylands. Since this agrarian crisis was due to severe damage caused to agro-ecological conditions of the drylands, this crisis was termed agro-ecological crisis. As these conditions continued to prevail, at regular intervals, over the years a critical analysis of causes of Agro-Ecological Crises Related to Agronomic Practices, Agro-Forestry, Market Price and Nature of Ecological was delineated through focused group discussion, personal interview and factor analysis. An attempt has been made in eight villages of three Mandals in Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh to analyse the cause behind the agro-ecological crisis with a sample of 120 farmers selected randomly. The major findings were: Destruction of agro-ecological aspects of crop fields, Neglect of crop residue incorporation in farm fields, Non-supportive and exploitative market prices and market forces, Destabilizing ecological balance in nature. It is the greed and unthoughtful interventions of man that led to destruction of precarious agro-ecosystems in dryland farming systems.
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Sanjay Kumar Gupta, DUM Rao, Krishna DK. Causes of Agro-ecological crises related to agronomic practices, Agro-forestry, market price and nature of ecological balance faced by farmers of dryland agro-ecosystem: A critical analysis. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(1):2179-2183.
