Tag: diversification into productive activities

Diversification includes two aspects -one relates to change in cropping pattern and the other relates to a shift of the workforce from agriculture to other allied activities (livestock, poultry, fisheries etc.) and non-agriculture sector.

As agriculture is already overcrowded, a major proportion of the increasing labour force needs to find alternate employment opportunities in other non-farm sectors. The non-farm economy has several segments in it providing ample opportunities.

Verghese Kurien, the chairman and founder of Amul, was named the chairman of NDDB which launched 'Operation Flood' by the then Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri. 

He gave the professional management skills and necessary thrust to the cooperative and is considered the architect of India's White Revolution (Operation Flood).

The dynamic sub-sectors to the agricultural sector include agro-processing industries, food processing industries, leather industry, tourism, etc.

As agriculture is already overcrowded, a major proportion of the increasing labour force needs to find alternate employment opportunities in other non-farm sectors. Non-farm economy has several segments in it - some possess dynamic linkages that permit healthy growth while others are in subsistence, low productivity propositions.

Those sectors which have the potential but seriously lack infrastructure and other support include traditional home-based industries like pottery, crafts, handlooms etc.

The IT has revolutionised many sectors in the Indian economy. There is broad consensus that IT can play a critical role in achieving sustainable development and food security in the twenty-first century. 

Governments can predict areas of food insecurity and vulnerability using appropriate information and software tools so that action can be taken to prevent or reduce the likelihood of an emergency.It also has a positive impact on the agriculture sector as it can disseminateinformation regarding emerging technologies and its applications, prices, weather and soil conditions for growing different crops etc. 

Though IT is, by itself, no catalyst for change it can act as a tool for releasing the creative potential and knowledge embedded in the society. It also has the potential of employment generation in rural areas.

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The need for diversification arises from the fact that there is greater risk in depending exclusively on farming for a livelihood. Diversification towards new areas is necessary not only to reduce the risk from the agriculture sector but also to provide productive sustainable livelihood options to rural people. 

Much of the agricultural employment activities are concentrated in the Kharif season. But during the Rabi season, in areas where there are inadequate irrigation facilities, it becomes difficult to find gainful employment. Therefore expansion into other sectors is essential to provide supplementary gainful employment and in realising higher levels of income for rural people to overcome poverty and other tribulations.

Also, agriculture is already overcrowded, a major proportion of the increasing labour force needs to find alternate employment opportunities in other non-farm sectors.

The sectors which are allied to the rural farm economy and have the potential but seriously lack infrastructure and other support include traditional home-based industries like pottery, crafts, handlooms etc.

As agriculture is already overcrowded, a major proportion of the increasing labour force needs to find alternate employment opportunities in other non-farm sectors. However, there is an immediate necessity to develop the same to improve them to provide supplementary gainful employment and in realising higher levels of income for rural people to overcome poverty and other tribulations.

Operation Flood, launched in 1970, was a project of India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), which was the world's biggest dairy development program. 

It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the USA in 1998, with about 17 per cent of global output in 201011. In 30 years it doubled milk available per person and made dairy farming Indias largest self-sustainable rural employment generator.

It was launched to help farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they create in their own hands. All this was achieved not merely by mass production, but by production by the masses; the process has been called the white revolution.

Operation Flood's objectives included:

• Increase milk production ("a flood of milk")
• Augment rural incomes and 
• Fair prices for consumers

"Operation Flood" started the White Revolution in India and made our country self-sufficient in milk and this was achieved entirely through the cooperative structure.