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What are technological reforms for agriculture? |
| Answer» The technological and institutional changes initiated in India to improve the condition of farmers include:The land reforms initiated in the first five-year plan aimed to:\tabolish zamindari and\tconsolidate land holdings. The consolidation of land holdings involved combining adjacent small fields into single large farms and encouraging individual land owners to do cooperative farming.Agricultural reforms in the 1960s and 1970s known as the green revolution in India:\tProviding high yielding varieties of seeds and fertilisers to farmers, and\tDeveloping large-scale irrigation facilities to allow them to grow two crops in a year.\tContinued expansion of farming areas. | |