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Agriculture Sector

Telangana Open School (TOSS) · Class 12 · Economics

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Importance and Growth of Agriculture in the Indian Economy

  • Agriculture contributes 17.4% to India's GDP (2017-18), down from 56.5% in 1950-51.
  • It provides employment to about 42% of the workforce (2020), though this is declining slowly.
  • Agriculture supplies raw materials to industries like sugar, jute, textiles, and food processing.
2

Low Productivity in Agriculture

  • India's crop yields are lower than global leaders — wheat yield is 48% of UK’s, rice yield is 53% of China’s.
  • Reasons for low productivity are categorized into common, organizational, and technical causes.
  • Common causes: Social environment (illiteracy, superstition), population pressure on land, and soil fertility degradation.
3

Land Reforms in India

  • Land reforms aim to ensure social justice and increase agricultural productivity by restructuring land ownership.
  • Main components: Removal of intermediaries, tenancy reforms, land ceiling, consolidation of holdings, and cooperative farming.
  • Removal of intermediaries: Ended zamindari system; land transferred to actual cultivators.
4

Green Revolution in India

  • Introduced in mid-1960s using High Yielding Varieties (HYVs) of wheat and rice, supported by fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation.
  • Father of Green Revolution globally: Norman Borlaug; in India: M.S. Swaminathan.
  • Led to massive increase in food grain production — wheat rose from 11.1 million tons (1960-61) to 95.85 million tons (2013-14).

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Agriculture contributes to national incomeIndian agriculture suffers from low yieldsGovernment initiatives like abolition of intermediariesIntroduction of highFarmers rely on both institutional (banks

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