What are the characteristics of Agriculture?
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It then continues in summarising the main specific characteristics of agriculture: The land use function, the supply and demand characteristics, the contribution of the agricultural sector to the provision of positive externalities and public goods, food as a unique and most essential good and agriculture as a key.
Characteristics of agriculture are as follows:-
- Source of livelihood:
It is the main profession that provides almost 61% of employment to the people in the overall population and also shares 25% of profit to national income.
- Dependence on monsoon:
In India, agriculture is totally dependent on the monsoon. The production would be more if the monsoon is good and the crops will fail if the monsoon would be less.
- Traditional methods of production:
In India, the equipment that we use for cultivation is traditional because of the illiteracy and poverty of the people and it led to the low cultivation of crops.