Report on Incentive Issues in Intensive Agricultural Practices

This report delves into the incentive issues confronting modern agricultural practices. It identifies key challenges such as small and fragmented land holdings, the quality of seeds, excessive use of fertilizers, and irrigation problems. The report also highlights issues related to agricultural marketing, inadequate storage facilities, and scarcity of capital. Recommendations are provided, focusing on the impact of corporate farming and the need for government policies to facilitate innovation. The report emphasizes the importance of addressing these issues to ensure sustainable agricultural growth and improve the livelihoods of farmers, covering various aspects from seed quality to profit generation. The author concludes by summarizing the importance of sustainable practices and offering solutions for a more efficient and equitable agricultural system.

Intensive Agriculture Issues

INTRODUCTION
Agricultural activities are those activities that has been done in order to generate food and
various other items fit for human consumption. These activities are referred to as those kinds of
stocks that is been cultivated for making it selling within market possible. It is one of the
important factors contributing towards economy of a particular country. Agriculture involves
livestock within it and also dairy products. Scope of agriculture is wider as it cover various
things required by human to make food. In this presentation incentive issues over agriculture is
to be discussed with recommendation and conclusion to be presented within it.
MAIN BODY
Incentive issues faced by agriculture
Agriculture is the process by which food is being cultivated by the farmers within their fields. In
this various kinds of elements requires within agriculture to be done. In modern world due to rise
in technology and population different issues has to be faced by them that has been explained as
follows:
Small and fragmented land-holdings: It can be observed that net sown area is of 141.2million
hectares and total corporate area is189.7 million hectare. It is required to be kept in mind that
farmers does not get proper economic benefit of its work. Now government in UK is required to
enhance the sales and production capacity on UK.
Seeds: Quality of seeds is not being provided and they are required to be a check over there
quality as they decides crop’s quality. This is important for production in future. This makes
sustainability within the growth of agriculture. Good quality seed is one of the most critical part
of agriculture. Quantity of these seeds are less and farmers are more. Especially small and
marginal farmers mainly because of exorbitant prices of better seeds.
Manures, Fertilizers and Biocides: This is another bigger problem that has to be faced by
farmers of modern world without caring much about fertilizer ad biocides. Excessive use of them
has lead over relinquishing of soil and make it low in terms of productivity. It makes farming
area to get destroyed. This is a serious problem which can be solved by using more manures and
fertilizers
Irrigation: This is one of the most recent problems that has been taking place within an
organization. Such problem is taking due to commercialization of lands allotted for farming is
being done. Then further in this problem can be controller when population n is controlled. If the
factors is not active then sustainability of growth is not gained within an organization.
Lack of mechanisms: In spite of the large scale mechanization of agriculture in some parts of the
country, most of the agricultural operations in larger parts are carried on by human hand using
simple and conventional tools and implements like wooden plough, sickle, etc.
Soil erosion: This is happened because of the wind and water. As due various kinds of natural
calamity lot of loss is to be faced by them. After it technique is to be applied for restoring of
original fertility.

Agricultural Marketing: Agricultural marketing still continues to be in a bad shape in rural. In
the absence of sound marketing facilities, the farmers have to depend upon local traders and
middlemen for the disposal of their farm produce which is sold at throw-away price.
Inadequate storage facilities: In it main focus is over storing of crops which is not done in
proper manner and due to which lot of food gets wasted. That is why immediate selling is
required by the farmer of the harvested crop on prevailing marketing prices. It deprives farmers
from there legitimate income.
Inadequate transport: In this sometimes transportation is very expensive and lack of cheap with
efficient means of transportation. Even at present there are lakhs of villages which are not well
connected with main roads or with market centers.
Scarcity of capital: This is main industry contributing towards economy in UK that is why huge
capital is required to be invested within it. It also helps in enhancing various factors like
machines and various farming equipment. Productivity is directly being affected because of this
crops produced is stimulated
Recommendation
I have observed that different practices of large-scale agriculture upon farms is being
owned and generally influenced by corporate culture. It has also impacted farming that has lead
over farming to be turned in to corporate farming. As per this companies buys and sell products
purchased by farmers. This can be contractual based and can also be tender based. Due to this
government’s impact is lessen within farming. Lao further it has been observed by me that no
farming is done upon contractual basis and buyers stipulates what farmers will grow. This has
reduced wastage of foods and has made guarantee of the product to be purchased within time
before it gets destroyed. In most instances of contract farming, the farm is family owned while
the buyer is a larger corporation. This makes it difficult to distinguish the contract farmers from
"corporate farms," because they are family farms but with significant corporate influence. This
subtle distinction left a loop-hole in many state laws that prohibited corporate farming,
effectively allowing corporations to farm in these states as long as they contracted with local
farm owners.
Also nowadays various policies has been formed by government that has resulted in
making farmers think about innovative ideas. Still various things is required to enhanced that is
fault within modern farming. Various complex procedure is required to be made easy.

CONCLUSION
In this presentation main things that is been focused upon is issues that is related to
agriculture. Details over issues like seeds quality, storage, pricing and profit gaining is been
discussed. Recommendation is been given over modern agricultural activities. In this
presentation various kinds of elements is responsible for impacting global environment and
agricultural activities.

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