Linking agro-ecological infrastructure to cropping practices for sustainable agricultural growth: do policies and local level institutional participation matter?

Agro ecological infrastructure for food security through sustainable agriculture is critical in India.Understanding of sustainable agricultural growth coupled with agro climatic farming practices and sophisticated water management seems to have resulted in productivity and positive growth of this sector.In addition, the situation appears to more critical in India, that has a large farm area under rain-fed practices with considerable proportion of marginal farmers, limited capacity of irrigation infrastructure and ailing water management.It threatens the food security, livelihoods in general and the environment in particular.Given this background, the article highlights democratization of agriculture policy and practices.Therefore, the urgency to adopt an agro-ecological agricultural performance with the integration of productivity in terms of efficient and participatory use of water from different sources within the hydro climatic framework.It also provides an understanding of the necessities of less water consuming crop yield adhering the diversification of agriculture.Consideration of these premises to the conclusion that technological intervention inside farmer knowledge helping agriculture precisely smart and sustainable.