The Direness of Cultivable Land Spotted on Agricultural: A Special Reference to Rice Production in South India

Abstract

The agriculture production is reduced due to land degradation, climate change, and other human activities that directly and indirectly affect the agriculture and ecosystem. The Indian’s produce 80% of agriculture production and remaining 20% are imported from foreign countries. The cultivable lands are gradually converted into residential areas and industrial estates. Rice is the one of a primary source for the South Indians. It was reduced from 99 million tonnes to 89 million tonnes. On another side, the amount of grain harvested worldwide production increased from 631 million to 1.65 billion tons but it is not enough to feed the entire population. The grains had increased to 1.6 times at the same time the world also population increased to 1.9 times (Brown, 2010). Therefore 0.3 times population grows faster than the production of agriculture. The agricultural production has grown slowly when compared to the population growth. Thus there is a gap between the growth of population and agricultural production. The suggestions are given to the government of India to promote organic farming and the modern sustainable agricultural system is to protect the cultivable land and to safeguard the soil, water and biodiversity.