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Description of  Secondary Agriculture: Sustainability and Livelihood in India

This book on Secondary Agriculture discusses the goal of doubling farmers incomes. The term secondary has a bearing on climate change adaptation and its mitigation, small farm viability and profitability, food security, nutrition, sustainable utilization of natural resources, and optimal usage of produce from primary agriculture and farm incomes. Promoting secondary agriculture has implications on attaining sustainable development goals, which aim to connect primary, secondary and tertiary sectors by using slack/idle factors of production, such as land and labour, contributing to primary agriculture production, capturing value in primary agricultural activities, and generating additional income at the enterprise level. Read more