The largest in the world. Million population is engaged in Indian agriculture. It is the country’s largest private enterprise. Rank India in the world for Cancer Rate as per the latest data released in November 2020 by the WHO. mm is the average annual precipitation (rainfall) in ...
In spite of all these facts, the average productivity of many crops in India is quite low. The country’s population in the next decade is expected to become the largest in the world and providing food for them will be a very prime issue. Farmers are still not able to earn respectable ...
Growth of agriculture and allied sectors is critical in improving the performance of Indian economy. This sector is assuming greater importance now than ever before. In spite of current sustained growth in gross domestic product (GDP), the fact lies that large segment of Indian population engaged ...
Indian migration is caused by underemployment of elder sons the subsistence nature of agriculture which is inadequate to purchase clothing and other household necessities and lack of local employment or educational opportunities. At least 1/2 of the men in the area had migratory experience. Indian ...
Population of India Investment Risks in India Reserve Bank of India SEBI India State Bank of India Economic GlossaryThe article provides information on the agricultural sector before independence in India, the challenges after Independence, the onset of Green Revolution and the attainment of self suffic...
NEW DELHI, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- India is basically an agriculture-based economy as it remains among the top producers of commodities including wheat, rice, cotton, cereals, vegetables and fruits, milk and milk products. Nearly 70 percent of India's population still lives in villages and depend...
Agriculture sector is the mainstay of the Indian economy, contributing about 15 per cent of national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and more importantly, about half of Indias population is wholly or significantly dependent on agriculture and allied activities for their livelihood. This paper is aimed...
Figures tend to show that in India the food yield has not kept pace with the growth of population, but that the gap has been partly filled by a decrease in the export of grain. Sir Arnold Wilson foresees the dwindling of this export trade and the growth of an import trade in wheat. ...
The nature and dimensions of the problems being faced today are much different and complex than those faced in the 1960s and 1970s. There appear no two opinions with respect to the need for further increasing foodgrains production for the growing population, and the need for healthy and ...
In both China and India agriculture is the key sector and yet detailed comparisons of agricultural development in the two economies are difficult to obtain. A major problem is, of course, the availability and reliability of data. This paper puts together some of the information that is now avai...