ABSTRACT
Indian agriculture has been suffering from high fever for quite some years now. Unfortunately, our planners and policymakers, who are internationally known experts, have not yet bothered to know whether this is policy-induced brain fever or soil health and waterrelated yellow fever or weather-related viral fever. Whatever be the case, the agricultural sector, as such, looks quite feverish and weak. The declining soil fertility, depleting ground water, technology fatigue, high input cost, low output prices, frequent occurrence of droughts and floods, declining farm productivity and profitability and overall policy mismanagement have combinedly slowed down the pace of agricultural development, thereby threatening the food security of the country and livelihood security of millions of farmers and farm labourers who are dependent on agriculture.
