Following are the causes of our backwardness in agriculture:
1 Lack of education the farmers of our country are mostly un-educated and lack technical knowledge they are unable to understand the modern scientific methods of agriculture and often remain ignorant of good means to production is therefore low
2 Lack of Capital
The majority of our farmers are poor and they often live in a hand to mouth position most of them are always under heavy burdens of debts so due to lack of capital they cannot afford to purchase modern scientific implements chemical manures improved types of seeds etc.