HAR KADAM KISAN KI BAROSHA MEIN --COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMPLICATED INDIAN AGRICULTURE Introduction: India is gifted with rich soils, most suitable climatic conditions and water resources to produce variety of crops throughout the year. Being tropical country with different climatic zones we are in a position to grow variety of fruits round the year and Indian food and fruits taste better due its natural conditions. Due to these advantages, despite huge population, fragmented holdings, lower investments we are able to meet our requirements and by and large recognized as self sufficient country. Green revolution, white revolution, thrust on major irrigation dams soon after independence richly contributed for growth of Indian agriculture. Recent challenges: The impact of inappropriate minimum support prices, lack of timely credit facilities, storage facilities, failure of APMCs, globalization, technology, rising input costs, erratic prices, inconsistent govern...

IS TRADITIONAL INDIAN FOOD FACING SURVIVAL THREAT?? It's very common practice that on Sundays people buy chicken, mutton, fish etc prepare in conventional form at home and enjoy the holiday with traditional food. Similarly vegetarians enjoy Paneer, speciality vegetable preparations at home. With the advancement of Software, finance, service sector jobs with global exposure our youth are getting attracted to pre cooked, baked, imported foods and in no time pizzas, burgers, nuggets etc became very popular and finding inroads into our semi urban and rural areas too. Similarly we Indian enjoy traditional fruits as part of food by consuming mangoes and banana with curd rice, take fruits after dinner. These practices are being replaced by natural ice creams, frozen fruit products (mainly imported) and having severe impact on our local fruits markets. With agri commodities like rice,wheat , pulses, millets, chillies, turmeric etc trading at rock bottom prices due to slack demand ...