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G. Gurumurthy

Coimbatore, Jan.22 Having moved on from ‘subsistence agriculture’ to ‘green revolution’ agriculture and now to sustainable agriculture or market-driven agriculture, commercial agriculture has come to occupy yet another dimension in the light of newer developments on the farm front, according to Dr C. Ramasamy, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU).

While anything produced for the market may not necessarily qualify as commercial agriculture, a high-level farm production with plenty of marketable surplus has come to form the basis of commercial agriculture, the TNAU Vice- Chancellor said while inaugurating a three-week long training programme here on Monday on commercial agriculture sponsored by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

Since conservation of natural resources was essential, both sustainable agriculture and commercial agriculture were to co-exist in an environment where rising labour shortage, changing cropping systems and emerging changes in input practices such as liquid fertilisers, bio-fuel crops, growing pressure on water and farm lands were pointers shaping up current day trends in agriculture, Dr Ramasamy said.

Integrating the pre-production, production and post-production stages through institutional arrangement is among the strategy for commercial agricultural practices.

A good rural infrastructure would boost commercial farming as much as the support management covering areas such as institutional credit delivery, group marketing, farm mechanisation and adequate policy environment touching on input pricing, export and contract farming.

The public and private partnership opportunities and emerging risk market managements such as the commodity exchanges and futures markets have lend depth to commercial farming, Dr Ramasamy added.

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