ENTRY DESCRIPTION
With a population of 1.27 billion India is the world's second-most populous country. Agriculture, with its allied sectors, is the largest source of livelihood in India with 82 percent of farmers being small and marginal.
While agriculture in India has achieved grain self-sufficiency but the production is, resource-intensive, cereal centric and regionally biased. The resource-intensive ways of Indian agriculture have raised serious sustainability issues too. Increasing stress on water resources of the country would definitely need a realignment and rethinking of policies. Desertification and land degradation also pose major threats to agriculture in the country.
The social aspects of agriculture have also been witnessing changing trends. The increased feminization of agriculture is mainly due to increased rural-urban migration by men, the rise of women-headed households, and growth in the production of cash crops which are labor-intensive in nature. Women perform significant tasks, both, on the farm as well as non-farm activities and their participation in the sector is increasing but their work is treated as an extension of their household work and adds a dual burden of domestic responsibilities.
This image I captured during my visit to Central Rural India under the Project '' Towards a New Green Revolution"

AUTHOR
I am Geetika Singh .. A Travel, Humanitarian, and Wildlife photographer born and brought up in the Nothern plains of India. As a photographer, my photographic portfolio spans the four corners of the globe and my favorite part of my travel photography is getting to meet people from different cultures and show a different unexplored world through my lens. I usually find my subjects by chance, while I travel. But, I'm particularly drawn to ancient traditions that are still surviving and evolving. Telling stories of people working in unique, challenging environments and those who live in a close bond with nature. Almost practicing for the last 8 years, the journey is unstoppable and my love for travel and wildlife has brought me to the Savanas of Africa. Hence my work allows me to travel to different countries of the world and my goal is simply to explore and save the extinct culture, species, nature, and wildlife.

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