Evaluation of Self Help Group

Abstract The increased dependence of youthful agriculture on fossil fuel-based sinew, while reducing drudgery, simultaneously increases the insecurity of the farmer to fluctuations in fuel prices. Labour costs have too risen sharply in recent times forcing farmers to go in for mechanization. The increased frequency of extreme weather events like droughts, floods, heat-waves and cold-spells existence witnessed and attributed to modality change, are also causing frequent losses to farmers.Any system in agriculture, therefore, should address these key challenges of land degradation, water availability, energy emergency and labour costs. Conservation agriculture addresses all these key challenges. Zero kitchen-gardening (ZT) or no-tillage one of the vital courtes of saving agriculture is now being practiced on almost 100 million ha nation worldwide with the major countries being USA, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Australia. However, the adoption of the technology in Asian cou ntries has been low.The modern concept of ZT tends to imply seeding a crop mechanically in undisturbed soil-covered plant residues. By adopting the zero-tillage system, some of the countries have reportedly got real benefits in terms of grain production, revenue generation and environmental protection. little tillage of the soil reduces labour, fuel, irrigation and machinery costs. In India, efforts to adapt and promote re antecedent conservation technologies have been underway for nearly a decade but it is scarce in the past 4 to 5 years that the technologies are determination rapid acceptance by the farmers.In India spread of technologies is taking distance in the irrigated regions in the Indo-Gangetic plains where rice-wheat cropping system dominates. ZT systems have not been tried or promoted in other major agro-eco regions like rainfed semi-arid tropics, the arid regions or the flock agro-ecosystems. As sustainable agriculture becomes more popular, monetary grants and awa rds are neat readily available to farmers who practice conservation tillage.Some large energy corporations which are among the greatest generators of fossil-fuel-related pollution are willing to purchase atomic number 6 credits to encourage farmers to engage in conservation tillage. The farmers land fundamentally becomes a ampere-second sink for the power generators emissions. This helps the farmer in some(prenominal) ways, and it helps the energy companies meet demands for reduction of pollution. Thus becoming a source of conserving energy in agriculture as it is certain that the way we approach energy, the way we produce, extract and consume it, will determine the future bod of life on earth.There is need of policy initiatives to be adopt to felicitate adaptation to climate change in India like forwarding of incentives for good agriculture practices like zero tillage, residue management, cover crops etc that promotes carbon sequestration and reduce emission of GHGs and prov iding subsidies for these practices in potential regions. Therefore, socially relevant schemes and policies on conservation agriculture is needed to promote a balance trade-off ensuring functional resilience of the ecosystem.