We can divide the problems faced by the Indian agriculture and by the farmers into two Natural and Man made.
Natural problems:
.1. Soil erosion: Large tracts of land suffer from soil erosion by wind and water.
2. Infertile soil: Growing crops for many years without replenishing led to the exhaution of soil and its depletion.
3. Lack of Irrigation: Only some areas of the cropped falls under irrigation.
Man made problems:
1. Small land holdings and fragmented land: Poor status made the farmers to have small land and also some farmers possesses share from their ancestral property cannot afford to apply mechanism.
2. High costs of Inputs: Good quality of seeds are out of reach for many small and marginal farmers due to their high price.
3. Agricultural marketing: Absence of sound marketing, facility, interference of local traders and middlemen for the disposal of their produce, fluctuations in the price.
4. In adequate transport: Lakhs of villages are not well connected with main roads or with market centres. Lack of cheap and efficient means of transportation is not available.
5. Scarcity of capital: Huge capital is needed to purchase advanced farm machineries and equipments which the poor farmers cannot afford to buy.
