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This paper analyzed major problems and issues which lead to the present crisis in Punjab agriculture and Crop diversification as an emphatic solution to solve the emerging crisis of Punjab agriculture. In Punjab, the crisis of agriculture is deepening for the last more than one decade year after year. The crisis is the result of growth pattern of Punjab agriculture. With the prevailing cropping pattern in Punjab there is a serious threat to the future of agriculture. Ongoing system of agricultural production in Punjab is engulfed by the problems of marketing of crops, environmental pollution, problems relating to water like over exploitation of water, water logging, declining water-table, soil degradation etc. and unemployment in rural areas. The serious efforts were required to solve the crisis of Punjab agriculture. If the state government would not act swiftly then the coming years would be much more painful for the people of Punjab and particularly for the Peasants. The immediate remedy suggested for this crisis is crop diversification. The issue of crop diversification is significant from the point of view of policy perspective regarding agrarian and overall economic development, employment and poverty.
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