Modern agriculture is an evolving approach with innovations in farming practices that helps in increasing agricultural efficiency and reduces the loss of natural resources. By applying this modern technology, farmers are gaining more profits and able to increase their productivity of yield. The level of mechanization has a significant positive impact on the cost, output value, and income and return rate of all types of crops. For every 1% increase in the level of mechanization, the yields of all crops, grain crops and cash crops increase by 1.2151, 1.5941 and 0.4351%, respectively. Introduction to the modern agricultural machinery like tractors, front-end loaders, backhoe and more will help the farmers to increase productivity. Mechanized farms will help to lessen the human effort and an increase in the growth of the crops.Agriculture contributes to a number larger of environmental issues that cause environmental degradation including: climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, dead zones, genetic engineering, irrigation problems, pollutants, soil degradation, and waste.

The level of mechanization has a significant positive impact on the cost, output value, and income and return rate of all types of crops. For every 1% increase in the level of mechanization, the yields of all crops, grain crops and cash crops increase by 1.2151, 1.5941 and 0.4351%, respectively. Agriculture contributes to a number larger of environmental issues that cause environmental degradation including: climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, dead zones, genetic engineering, irrigation problems, pollutants, soil degradation, and waste. The major benefits of farm mechanization are reduced requirement of human labour, fastening of agricultural operations and increased productivity and efficiency. Modernization of agriculture results from a whole galaxy of factors that include physical input, economic, organizational, cultural, and motivational and knowledge factors. While all these factors cannot be provided in one go, they trickle in slowly over a long time before they get established and stabilized. Modern agriculture is an evolving approach with innovations in farming practices that helps in increasing agricultural efficiency and reduces the loss of natural resources. By applying this modern technology, farmers are gaining more profits and able to increase their productivity of yield. It is estimated that Farm Mechanization can help reduce time by approximately 15 to 20 percent. Also, it helps in improving the harvest and reducing the post-harvest losses, and improving the quality of cultivation. There is a need to adopt modern methods of irrigation like drip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation. Compared with furrow irrigation, drip irrigation methods can reduce the volume of water applied to fields by up to 70 percent, while increasing crop yields by 20 to 90 percent.

The main issue for Indian agriculture will be drought and extreme heat. So, clean what water there is, conserve water and build sun driven sea water purification plans along the coast with branches inland. In terms mechanization, sun power at farms seems like an obvious choice.

Thanks Dr Michael Wynn for participating in the discussion.

Farm mechanization refers to the development and use of machines that can take the place of human and animal power in agricultural processes with the end objective to enhance the overall productivity and production with the lowest cost of production. Agricultural mechanization is crucial in the agriculture sector as it contributes towards improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the inputs used in crop production thereby also increasing the productivity of crops. This also reduces the drudgery associated with various farm operations. Agriculture contributes to a number larger of environmental issues that cause environmental degradation including: climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, dead zones, genetic engineering, irrigation problems, pollutants, soil degradation, and waste. The major benefits of farm mechanization are reduced requirement of human labour, fastening of agricultural operations and increased productivity and efficiency. Introduction to the modern agricultural machinery like tractors, front-end loaders, backhoe and more will help the farmers to increase productivity. Mechanized farms will help to lessen the human effort and an increase in the growth of the crops. Technology in agriculture affects many areas of agriculture, such as fertilizers, pesticides, seed technology, etc. Biotechnology and genetic engineering have resulted in pest resistance and increased crop yields. Mechanization has led to efficient tilling, harvesting, and a reduction in manual labor. Modernization of agriculture is a process of transforming agriculture from traditional labour-based agriculture to technology-based. Modern agriculture is an evolving approach with innovations in farming practices that helps in increasing agricultural efficiency and reduces the loss of natural resources. By applying this modern technology, farmers are gaining more profits and able to increase their productivity of yield. Mechanized agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity. The effective mechanization contributes to increase production in two major ways: firstly the timeliness of operation and secondly the good quality of work.