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Impacts of Gloablisation on Indian Agriculture

 Impacts of Globlisation on Indian Agriculture

Positive Impacts:

1. Globalisation has given the opportunity to access the foreign markets.

2.Globalisation enabled greater access to technological advancements in agriculture.

3. Foreign investment in agriculture in food processing, cold storage and contract farming have helped farmers.

4.  It has empowered the farmers to understand, reach out and compete in global markets

5. It has  helped to change the agrarian society’s attitudes towards new technologies in farming. 

Negative Impacts: 

1. At present Multi National Companies of other nations of the world has captured the Indian markets making farmers dependent on the expensive high yield seeds and fertilizers.

2.Attraction of global market resulted in farmers shifting from traditional or mixed cropping to unsustainable cropping practices which leads to the problem of depletion in fertlity and ground water table.

3. The competition from cheaper imports pushed down the prices of crops like cotton, wheat etc making agriculture unsustainable for many farmers.

4. Globalisation caused change in food habits with increased consumption of proteins, sugars and fats causing increase in lifestyle diseases.

5. Globalisation has also accelerated the rural urban migration because large number of farmers could not be able to compete with foreign producers within their markets and they start withdrawing their investments from agriculture.

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