Agricultural Resources Information System (AgRIS): An e ...

phenomena. The locus of agricultural growth has since been
shifted from production front to the processing and marketing
front. Cooperatives once again emerge as an alternative for
making rural economy vibrant, as this sector has done during
green revolution and white revolution during 1960s and 1970s.
2.4 Agriculture has undergone several fundamental changes
during the 20 th Century, including extensive dependence on farm
machinery, intensive fertilizer and agrochemical management,
crop breeding, high yielding hybrid varieties, and genetic
manipulation. Agricultural development requires resources,
infrastructure, technology, and institutions.
2.5 Farmers in rural areas continue to experience great
disparity in income compared with other sectors, and revert to
natural resources as the most accessible sources of livelihood.
Higher per Capita consumption of natural resources in several
developed countries threatens global sustainability. Degradation
of natural resources is a key threat to socio-economic
development, and to global environment (e.g., climate change and
loss of biodiversity).
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