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QI .Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: (8) India is an agricultural country. Agriculture is •only' 16 % of GDP but the largest sector for employment. Officially farmers are only a few hundred million, but adding family members who help or occasionally farm. as also wage labourers, the number of farm workers is likely to be closer to half a billion people. But how many people would India need in farming if it were as labour efficient as the US for growing crops? I am not suggesting it is possible. or even desirable (large. mechanised farms with massive chemical and water inputs) but as a thought exercise? Just four million people. The US is extreme; with less than 2% of its population growing food sufficient for almost 2 billion people, but much of it is fed to animals. Jobs aside, India needs to shift from basic farming to more efficient, sustainable, and productive farming. Unfortunately, today's agriculture policies fail to recognise how crop choices, input costs, and the supply chain are intertwined, perpetuating marginal farming. Moreover, growing more food isn't the solution to providing employment. There is enough food, especially considering calories as opposed to micronutrients. Exports are possible but require extensive value add, and it is not clear how much of this would benefit the farmer as opposed to the processor or trader. Fundamentally, India must figure out a way to provide meaningful employment to hundreds of millions of people outside agriculture. Agriculture is dying not as in the production of food but as a desirable profession. For all the bucolic if not romanticised portrayals of farming and a rural lifestyle, it is really a thankless. risky, and even backbreaking job, especially as undertaken by the masses. which is subsistence agriculture. One bad yield, whether due to errant rains, pests, etc., and most farmers have no buffer available. The clearest indicator of the problems of agriculture as a profession is how there are act

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