• Satya Kiran Adapa
• V Seshagiri Rao

India is largely an agricultural dependent country and Agriculture is still contributing more than half of employment to Indian population and around 14% of its GDP. In recent times there is a growing distress among paddy farming community and it is evident from the decreasing land under paddy cultivation in India. What is more concerning in regard is the land under paddy cultivation is declining in the areas like Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh, where the conditions are very much favorable to the paddy cultivation. The present paper tries to analyze different issues relating to paddy cultivation in these districts of Andhra Pradesh which are causing distress among paddy farmers and eventually leading to decrease in land under paddy cultivation. The present paper broadly concentrates on problems pertaining to the growing labour scarcity in agricultural sector due to structural transition in the labour markets and also to understand how prevailing conditions are not conducive for the farmers to mechanize their agricultural operations due to their low financial capacities and small land holdings. The present paper is based on review of literature as par as the problems involved in the paddy cultivation, the data is taken from the secondary sources and used simple statistical comparisons like percentages. In the present attempt it is understood that the profitability of farmers in paddy cultivation is decreasing due increasing cost of cultivation. The increasing cost of cultivation can be mainly attributed to raising labour cost year by year due increasing wages in agricultural sector and incapability of farmers in substituting labour with machine labour due small size of land holding and low financial capacities. In this regard certain suggestions are made; the first one is integrating the MGNREGS to agriculture, empowering the PACs to by machines to provide them on rental basis to the farmers and adopting group cultivation to overcome the labour problems and to improve the financial capacities of the farmers.

Agriculture, paddy cultivation, agricultural distress, agricultural costs, agricultural mechanization, labour scarcity

"Challenges In Paddy Cultivation In Godavari Districts Of Andhra Pradesh, India: An Assessment Literature ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.304-315, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903341.pdf

"Challenges In Paddy Cultivation In Godavari Districts Of Andhra Pradesh, India: An Assessment Literature ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp304-315, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903341.pdf