It provides nutrients like proteins, carbohydrates, fats minerals and vitamins. Agricultural Engineering inputs are also needed to assure remunerative prices to the growers and a share in the value addition to the growers through on-farm PHT and value addition to their produce and by-products in order to strengthen their livelihood base landholdings are decreasing for their socio-economic sustenance and assure minimum standards of living.įood is the first and the foremost requirement of the people for their survival. It helps the farmers to achieve timeliness and precisely mater and apply costly input for better efficacy and efficiency, achieving higher productivity with reduced application of inputs.Īgricultural produce and by-products are perishable in nature in varying degree and their perishability gets exploited on the market floor compelling distress sales orchestrated by factors of demand and supply, intervention of the faces of marketing in the absence of matching post-harvest technology (PHT) and agro-processing infrastructure. Mechanism also imparts capacity to the farmers to carry out farm operation with dignity, with ease and freedom from drudgery, making the farming agreeable vocation for educated youth as well. It is needed for development and optimal utilization of natural resources, appropriate mechanism of unit operations of agriculture for increasing production, productivity with reduced unit cost of production for greater profitability, economic competitiveness and sustainability. Engineering inputs are vital for modernization of agriculture, agro-processing and rural living.
Indian agriculture is a way of life and it supports about 60 per cent of population for their livelihood and contributes 17% of GDP in India.
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