explain any five feature of the agriculture of the India
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5 features of agriculture of India are:
(i) Source of livelihood:
Agriculture is the main occupation. It provides employment to nearly 61% persons of total population.
It contributes 25% to national income.
(ii) Dependence on monsoon:
Agriculture in India mainly depends on monsoon. If monsoon is good, the production will be more and if monsoon is less than average then the crops fail. Sometimes floods play havoc with our crops. As irrigation facilities are quite inadequate, the agriculture depends on monsoon.
(iii) Labour intensive cultivation:
Due is increase in population the pressure on land holding increased. Land holdings get fragmentated and subdivided and become uneconomical. Machinery and equipment can not be used on such farms.
(iv) Under employment:
Due to inadequate irrigation facilities and uncertain rainfall, the production of agriculture is less, farmers find work a few months in the year. Their capacity of work cannot be properly utilised. In agriculture there is under employment as well as disguised unemployment.
(v) Small size of holdings:
Due to large scale sub-division and fragmentation of holdings, land holding size is quite small. Average size of land holding was 2.3 hectares in India while in Australia it was 1993 hectares and in USA it was 158 hectares.