Role of Agricultural R&D Policy in Managing Agrarian Crisis in India
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The study has revealed that agricultural research and development (R&D) has potential to offer long-term
solutions to the problems of Indian agriculture. With the changing environment and supply-side
constraints, the role of R&D has become more important. This realization alongwith past performance
of agricultural R&D has convinced the government to commit a significant proportion of its resources
for developing appropriate technologies. The ICAR-SAUs system has come out with a number of
improved agricultural technologies for major agro-climatic conditions. The paper has provided a list
of some of these technologies, which are capable of making farm operations easy, provide savings in
resources, reduce production losses, improve product quality and increase shelf-life of products, etc.
These technologies eventually provide higher availability of quality foods and higher farm income,
including maintaining productive capacity of agro-ecosystems. Since some of the new technologies
are information-intensive, the role of ICT has become more important alongwith empowerment of
farmers with scientific know-how.