Agriculture is the backbone of India’s economy and socio-economic development. It’s the main source of food for the world’s most populous country, our motherland Bharatmata’s about 140 crore population and contributes to the national income. It contributes 18.2% of nation’s GDP. Despite remarkable progress, agriculture sector faces many challenges like climate change, lack of infrastructure, small land holdings, reducing per capita land availability, poor mechanization, environmental degradation, agricultural marketing etc. Besides, there is huge gap of about 70% between technology generation and technology reach to the farmers which is much wider (~85%) in the North-Eastern region. Technology led growth and effective technology dissemination to the farmers are of paramount importance for sustainably enhancing production per unit of land, reducing cost of production,...Read More