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Inputs in Agriculture

Seed is the most basic and important input in agriculture, as it is the living embryo that sustains growth. As the symbol of new beginnings in scientific farming, seed supports high productivity, profitability, biodiversity, and environmental protection. Globalization and trade agreements will require increased competitiveness and efficiency in seed production. As demand for food and fiber increases due to population growth, farm power from machines will be needed to produce more from limited land areas. Irrigation is also a critical infrastructure, as it allows for supplemental watering of crops and multiple harvests per year, increasing yields - but requires other supporting factors like roads, markets, and credit to fully realize its development potential.

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Inputs in Agriculture

Seed is the most basic and important input in agriculture, as it is the living embryo that sustains growth. As the symbol of new beginnings in scientific farming, seed supports high productivity, profitability, biodiversity, and environmental protection. Globalization and trade agreements will require increased competitiveness and efficiency in seed production. As demand for food and fiber increases due to population growth, farm power from machines will be needed to produce more from limited land areas. Irrigation is also a critical infrastructure, as it allows for supplemental watering of crops and multiple harvests per year, increasing yields - but requires other supporting factors like roads, markets, and credit to fully realize its development potential.

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Inputs in Agriculture

Seed:
Seed is technically defined as ripened ovule containing embryo.
Another definition says that the seed is a living embryo which is vital
and basic input for attaining sustained growth in agricultural
production in different agro-climatic conditions. The embryo in the
seed remains almost suspended for sometimes and then revives to new
development.

Seed is the symbol of beginning in scientific agriculture, seed is the


basic input and the most important catalyst for other inputs to be cost
effective. For ensuring sustainability the seed supports high
productivity, enhancing profitability, creating bio-diversity at a
reasonable level and gives environmental protection. Thus the seed
plays a vital and remarkable role in agriculture.

The globalization of market and the recent meet of the General


Agreement on Tariff and Trade will call for competitiveness and
efficiency in the seed sector and its utility in terms of productivity, risk
coverage, nutritional qualities and adaptability.

Fertilizer:
Farm Power:
The world is entering in the twenty-first century so that every sector of
the economy should prepare itself to face the challenges of the coming
century. There will be need to produce more than what is being
produced and there would be greater demand for food, fiber and other
commodities.
The land area is limited and moreover from the already scarce
cultivated or cultivable area the land shall be coming under the
agricultural uses like housing, entertainment etc. With the
technological development more power will be needed to fulfill the
growing demand.

Farm power and productivity are co-related because to produce more


per unit land the use of machinery and equipment are inevitable.

The main sources of power in agriculture are:


1. Bullocks,

2. He-buffaloes (Specially in Tarai area),

3. Camel (in desert area),

4. Horses (in European countries),

5. Machines (used universally).

Implements and Machinery:


There are a variety of implements used in the modern scientific
agriculture but the most basic implements used in Indian agriculture
are: Khurpi, sickle, spade, pickage, desi plough, patella and other local
models are—local, models of hoes, harrows, cultivators, seed drill
(malabasa) etc.

Efforts toward developing better implements started in 1900 by L.K.


Kirloskar in his firm the manufacturing of agricultural implement and
machinery started.
Irrigation:
Irrigation is the artificial application of water to crops. In the rainy
season if the spread of rainfall is evenly distributed and rains in the
right intensity the crops are raised as rainfed crops, if the rainfall is
erratic and insufficient then supplemental irrigation is needed. In the
Rabi season, during the period of receding monsoon irrigation is
needed which depends on the nature of the crop and its requirement.

During this period the crop production is highly successful if assured


irrigation is in existence. Therefore, irrigation is as much a basic
infrastructure in the development efforts as roads, market facilities,
credit agencies and other rural structures are.

In itself, it cannot do much by way of development but combined with


other factors it creates a potentially favourable situation for
agricultural development. When irrigation permits double or multiple
cropping its potential to promote changes is particularly great.

Introduction of irrigation appreciates land value, it helps in adoption


of innovations like double or multiple cropping but for this purpose
other infrastructures need to exist.

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