Agriculture revolution and its effect

Agriculture revolution and its effect

     Agriculture revolution and its effect

To define Agriculture revolution and its effect, we have to discuss first the definition of Agriculture revolution their extension and implementation in different climatic condition and different irrigation facilities. Moreover one question arises on our mind that, is it is a sustainable for the long time or not?

Revolution means something changes in a rapid and faster manner than the earlier any condition and left a spot of changes on that particular period of time and longer. So basically people want revolution to change the prevailing condition and to find out the way to get the betterment. All we have heard the name of different kind of revolution like, Agriculture revolution, Industrial revolution, Democratic revolution and so on…

Definition of Agriculture revolution

Agriculture revolutions mean the change in traditional agriculture practices and adopt advanced technique to get a higher production than the prevailing production. The objective of agriculture revolution is to eradicate poverty of the country and export the excess production to earn foreign currency and improve the financial condition of the country.

"Agriculture revolutions mean the change in traditional agriculture practices and adopt advanced technique to get a higher production than the prevailing production.”

We mark them as a revolution because we want to get higher production with the help of the package of practices, used HYV (High yielding varieties) seeds and get reflective repercussions and higher production to adopt the new techniques in agriculture fields.

The use of new technique, short duration HYV seeds and pesticides in right doses, good irrigation facilities, proper drainage system configuration of land and focus on a particular area help to achieve the agriculture revolution. Huge amount of productivity in agriculture revolution not only increase the production of land but also increase the wage of the agriculture laborer. In economics one thing is related to the other in a circular motion, so when agriculture revolution happened and laborers get higher wage they demand industrial product. In developed country when demand increases supply of industrial product is also increased and there will be a higher chance that the country may experience industrial revolution simultaneously with agriculture revolution. Thus it can be said that, agriculture revolution is the key point of economic growth.

In many countries of the world agriculture revolutions have been happened, and it increased the production in two or three times, but outcome shows on some few crops and focusing on few areas. So what was the drawback that we do not achieve the full target?

So here we discuss the effect of agriculture revolution

Effect of Agriculture revolutions

The effect of agriculture revolution can be measured in two parts 1) Economic effects and 2) Sociology economic effects

Economic effect-

1) Agriculture revolution increased the production of the crop in many times but it concentrates only some particular crop .The effect of increase the production on other crop shown very small.

2) Due to the increase of production, countries gain capital profit and moreover land owner gain a profitable amount, but due to the unorganized sector the wage of laborers did not increased so much.

Sociology effect

1)     Agriculture revolution gained through the use of best practices and it increased the production in many times but simultaneously create economic disparities mainly in underdeveloped countries, where agriculture sector is unorganized. Big farmers able to take the advantages because they have adequate land and they use the pesticides, HYV seeds and so on. But the small farmers do not able to left their traditional practices due to the insecurities. Moreover small farmers do not agree to take the risks of short duration crop production due to the fragmentation of land, holding small lands, inadequate information and knowledge etc.

2)      Irrigation facilities are the most important part of the agricultural production, but most of the under developed countries cultivation depend on the monsoon condition. So where the farmers able to supply time to time irrigation facilities on HYV seeds, the production shows fruitful results. The climatic condition configuration of land also need to desirable out come. So the agriculture revolution mainly concentrate on some focused area rather than the whole country.

3)      The use of new technology requires proper knowledge and the proper application. It has not been possible to adopt the technology without expert guidance. Here small farmers suffer a lot, because they are not able to come in proper channel to take the advantages.

4)      Excessive use of pesticides become reduces the productivity of the crop. Due to inadequate knowledge and desire to get higher production farmers used overdoes of pesticides. Excessive use of chemical the insects of the land become die. So the fertility of the land gradually decreased.

5)     Some time excessive production and not getting the proper market for the production, de-motivate the farmers. Excessive production of the particular crop decrease the price level and farmers faces huge loses. Most of agriculture sector in under developed countries is unorganized, so the proper marketing of the yield is not possible.

                

Agriculture revolution and its effect

                                                                                                                                             

In recent era Government took various steps to overcome the difficulties in the agriculture sector

1)      Government introduces various High yielding seeds for the small farmers with proper training facilities and guidance of the experts. Various NGOs and development sectors come forward and guided the farmers in grass root level.

2)      Government tries to increase the cropping intensity of the farmer. Farmers are habituated to produce mostly on rainy season due to the availability of water, but with the help of the various  training program multi cropping system on the same land introduce. Moreover cultivation of different crop in rotation wise increases the fertility of the land. Introduce high yielding cash crops and motivate the farmers to adopt these crops beside the cultivation of cereals, to get the higher profit.

3)      The entire developed nations have the enterprise system, so it is very much essential to develop a strong entrepreneurship system in agriculture system in under developed countries also. In some countries government introduce support price, but to get the targeted goal a strong marketing system is important.

4)       Through various research work government introduce some low water consumption high yielding crops. It helps the farmer to cultivate in various scanty rainfall areas. Despite all of this, new technological system to conservation of water in sloping area introduced to recharge the water level and to increase the fertility of the land.

5)      Properly used of small land and various technological machine introduced to increase the production and replace the traditional system.

Conclusions

Agriculture revolution mark a particular point of time. High production  sustainability for longer time, to overcome the crisis of food and gain self dependent of a country,we  have to adopt the following steps. Better land use policies, a continuous improvement in yields, an increased availability and efficient use of inputs and credits, an adequate support by research education and extension ,proper marketing price structure helpful to achieve the success of agriculture revolution.