Agricultural extension

With reference to the article: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/change-of-crop/502475/

For years I have been reading one same line, “India’s agriculture is heavily dependent on monsoons.” This makes me wonder, what about other places with faces extreme climates? What about those who get nothing like a month long monsoonal rains? And if those can exist, why can’t India too adopt their techniques to meet the production levels and not remain totally dependent on rain-gods!

The arrival of monsoon is now delayed every year and it is this reason why farmers have made an inevitable shift to resort to new techniques to avoid, or at least reduce the damage caused due to late, low or even no rains at all.

Rajkumari, the protagonist here, shows an exemplary courage to take a step forward and get into the technicalities. She made all efforts to ensure that she brings awareness about the latest technologies which can help her land grow a variety rather than only Cannibis and that too consistently. Her effort to use the land and grow a variety of crops also brought in huge revenue profits for the farmer and people of her village. She also inspired many others to grow other crops which had better yields and returns.

Being from a rural place where women are not expected to move out of the home, she met experts at Krishi Vikas Kendras and took farming tips from them.
The lady deserves a pat on the back for leading from the front and bringing in also innovative ideas like using a certain portion of land for fruits and the rest for wheat and rice.

Now I’m sure there will be a change.