Abstract:The agriculture sector faces numerous challenges like increasing population, decreasing per capita land, fragmented land holdings, land degradation and climate change in 21st Century. The downtrend of per capita land availability poses a severe threat to the sustainability and profitability of agriculture. This issue is severe for small and marginal farmers as they face many problems sustaining single farm enterprises. The global assessment on water scarcity indicates that about 66 % of the global population l… Show more
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