India grows more than 40 different crops in its 6.65 lakh villages 1 . Such has been the diversification and cropping intensity that India ranks amongst the top three countries globally for more than 20 different agriculture commodities. This growth in Indian agriculture started with the onset of the green revolution in the early 1970s & has been fueled ever since by various factors such as improved irrigation, availability of high-yielding hybrid seeds, usage of compound fertilizers, usage of selective pesticides & improved farm mechanization.