Question

Modern farming methods require more inputs that are manufactured in industry. Do you agree?

Answer 1

Modern farming methods :

1. Modern farming practises are associated with a specific type of agricultural output that involves high capital inputs, labour, heavy use of farm machinery like harvesters, winnowing machines, and threshers, as well as technology like selective breeding, insecticides, chemical fertilisers, and pesticides.
2. Yes, modern farming methods require industrially produced input.
3. Pesticides, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and HYV seeds that increase yields per hectare are industrially produced.
4. Modern farming methods require both businesses as well as capital.
5. Thus, farmers need more cash than before to start farming.
6. Machinery used by farmers such as threshers, combined harvesters, and tractors is also manufactured industrially.
7. Tubewells and water pump equipment used for irrigation are also manufactured industrially.
8. Modern farming methods require input such as farm machinery, fertilizers HYV seeds, pesticides, pump sets, canals, diesel, etc. which can only be produced in industries.
9. Farmers in Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh, and Punjab were the first to try modern farming methods in India.