A Study of New Trends in Agriculture Production and Family Farming

India’s achievements in agriculture sector, though impressive in some areas and states, have remained lower than the potential. The main reason for this is the complacence of our leaders, particularly research leaders, with our achievements. We generally compare our contemporary food situation with the situation of food scarcity of mid 1960s and draw satisfaction from the fact that now we are not facing food scarcity. Our mindset is fixed in comparing agriculture of 2000s or recent years with agriculture of 1965-67 rather than comparing agriculture achievements with the achievements of India’s other sectors and other nations. What has been achieved in agriculture is not compared with what is achieved in space, IT, telecom, services, automobiles, medical science, transport etc. Between 1965-67 and 2000s, we are much more different in all sectors and spheres of life than in agriculture but we do not assess achievement of agriculture against the challenging yardsticks. Surely, agricultural achievements are big compared to mid 1960s but they look dwarf compared to other yardsticks.