{"id":204,"date":"2023-02-13T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2023-02-13T08:08:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:08:47","slug":"crop-consistency-a-major-cause-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/crop-consistency-a-major-cause-of-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Crop Consistency a major cause of concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">India is definitely the most agriculturally bio- diverse country in the world, with the potential to produce a vast majority of the agro produce, grown across the globe. However, there is one major cause of concern, which is produce consistency <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"ticss-8c2b533c\">According to experts there is definitely a lack of produce consistency, partly because of the sheer range of hybrid crops and another major reason is top soil inconsistency.<br>&#8221; India is a country where land holdings are extremely marginal. The average is just about 1.14 hectares and 8n the agro rich, irrigated and delta regions, it\u2019s not even half a hectare. This results in extreme top soil discrepancy and in some cases overall degradation as the soil is overused to produce more, &#8221; Observed P Venkateshwara Rao, a former field scientist with SCI.<br>Moreover, the focus on wheat and paddy has ensured that there is excessive monocropping on an unprecedented scale, which results in major output and produce inconsistencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\">Image Credit: https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/piNf3C4TViA?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditShareLink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>India is definitely the most agriculturally bio- diverse country in the world, with the potential to produce a vast majority of the agro produce, grown across the globe. However, there is one major cause of concern, which is produce consistency<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}