Question

Mention special features of Indian Agriculture are mentioned below:

Answer 1

(i) Indian Agriculture is mainly of intensive subsistence type.

(ii) It is mainly practised in areas of high population pressure on land.

(iii) It is labour intensive farming where high doses of biochemical inputs and irrigation are used for obtaining high yields.

(iv) Farmers continue to take maximum output from the limited land with absence of alternate source of livelihood which leads to enormous pressure on agricultural land.

(v) The right of inheritance has led to division of land among successive generations and rendered the size of land holding uneconomical.

Answer 2

• Agriculture remains the most important sector of the Indian economy, whether it be the pre independence or the post-independence periods.

• This fact is emphatically proved by the large number of people who depend on it for their livelihood.

special features of Indian Agriculture are mentioned below :-

• From the monetary point of view the share of the agriculture sector in the economy remains at 17.4 percent of the GDP.

• From the livelihood point of view still 49 percent of the people of India depend on the agriculture sector.

• Agriculture is not only the biggest sector of the economy, but also the biggest private sector too. It is the only profession which still carries no burden of individual income tax.

• This is the biggest unorganized sector of the economy accounting for more than 90 percent share in the total unorganized labor-force.

• India has emerged as a signifi cant agri-exporter in few crops, namely - cotton, rice, meat, oil meals, spice, guar gum meal and sugar.

• According to the export fi gures, agriculture is deeply related to industrial growth and the national income in India - 1 per cent increase in the agricultural growth leads to 0.5 per cent increase in industrial output (growth) and 0.7 per cent increase in the national income of India.

• Productivity of major crops are lower in case of India in comparison to the world’s best practice.

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