AN OVERVIEW ON AGRICULTURE IN INDIA

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  • Arvind Malik, Ramarcha Kumar

Abstract

Agriculture was a central factor in the growth of sedentary human civilization, since it allowed people to live in cities by creating food surpluses from domesticated species. In the recent era of growth, India's agriculture sector is experiencing a dynamic process. It provides 65 percent of India's working population with job opportunities. This review paper gives all details about agriculture, advantages of agriculture, disadvantages of agriculture and agriculture in India. This review also provides various data (such as production of great Crops production in the current year, Distributions of numbers of holding and area set off  in India economic value in billions from different crops in various countries of the world) and there variations . It gives the details of major drawbacks of farm sector in India.Agriculture accounts for 13.7 percent of GDP and 57 percent of jobs in India. Agriculture provides the majority of raw materials to sectors such as sugar, paper, textiles, handloom, food manufacturing, and dairy.

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2021-04-10 — Updated on 2021-04-23

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Arvind Malik, Ramarcha Kumar. (2021). AN OVERVIEW ON AGRICULTURE IN INDIA. International Journal of Modern Agriculture, 10(2), 2087 - 2095. Retrieved from http://modern-journals.com/index.php/ijma/article/view/964 (Original work published April 10, 2021)

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