Main Problems of Dry Farming

The main problems of dry farming agriculture are as under:

1. Scarcity of precipitation, erratic, occurrence of rains leading to famines, droughts, and floods.

2. The soils, being sandy, lack in humus and organic nutrients.

Fig. 9.24 Dry Farming Areas Crop Combination (2005-06)

3. The dry farming areas are highly vulnerable to soil erosion.

4. These are low yields per unit area.

5. In the absence of moisture and irrigation, the use of High Yielding Varieties and new technology is not possible.

6. Most of the farmers in the dry farming regions being poor, are not able to apply the new costly inputs.

7. These areas are not having the basic irrigation and other infrastructural facilities, like roads, marketing and storage.