Over the next two decades India is set to observe its largest ever phase of urbanisation and would like to keep food security without a scratch by promoting optimal usage of agrochemicals as a key to raise food yield of India. As per the industry experts the major plunge to the process of urbanisation is likely to confer through greater migration to cities with people looking for better opportunities and rising literacy. Moreover, in order to provide accommodation to the rural Indians who are moving out of small towns and villages in seek of better opportunities and growth the new government has precisely put an emphasis on creating new cities.
By expanding the urban space it is explicable that rural land will rapidly be guzzled amid rising pressure on existing cities and improved shove on creating new urban centre. However, this trend in past two decades has now already been seen as a Special Economic Zones (SEZs), industries, new residential localities and an expressway which stands on what were once known as lush green fields growing crops.
According to one of the researched report, in the four decades from 1971 to 2008 urban population of India had gone up by nearly 230 million and now it is anticipated to take only half this time to add the next 250 million. Moreover before the urban expansion, India was on the cusp of a never seen.
Furthermore, the production of food grain in India in the year 2011-12 had recorded 259.29 million tons, however the production of food grain has to be ensuring with rise in per hectare, as we have a glance at the scenario where the land which is under cultivation will decline with an instantaneous increase in population. Nevertheless, the boost in the production in order to congregate the budding need for food grains that can be achieved solitary through larger prominence on agrochemicals and their astute use.
As per the industry experts, aimed at sustaining agricultural practices the agrochemical consist of a wide range of chemical compounds, which contains insecticides to fight against insect attacks, herbicides to root out unwanted weeds that becomes parasites on the key crop and slow down yields, pesticides to protect the crop from pests and rodents and fungicides to prevent loss of crop owing to disease infestation.
However, through promoting optimum use of insecticides and pesticides and rising yield per hectare and minimising loss, one can plan to keep our food security intact in the next two decades as it is of utmost importance.
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