Why is agriculture called the backbone of our economy?
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Agriculture called the backbone of indian economy because most of part of the india is related from village and villagers directly depend upon the farming. ... now it has come to light that India's economy growth is not keeping with the expectations because it's agricultural growth is lagging behind .
progressing on the agricultural front, we have to first of all ensure that all of India is irrigated and none of its area remains rain-fed because chemical fertilisers cannot be of much use in rain-fed areas to boost agriculture production. At present, a major part of India is rain-fed. To achieve quick and 100 per cent results in irrigation, we have to build small dams that cost less and yield results quickly.
Moreover, we have to implement the inter-linking of river project immediately to ensure 100 per cent irrigation and to escape the wraths of both floods and droughts. Our watershed programmes, too, need to be implemented quickly. Most of the land is in the hands of small and marginal farmers, who cannot afford costly inputs like fertilisers, better seeds, tractors and machineries for agriculture, and thus, have to depend on credit. They also do not get enough returns for their products because they do not know agricultural marketing. In this regard, we have to treat agriculture as industry and open it to corporate world that can afford to buy these costly inputs and can employ the small and marginal farmers as their employees.
The other option is that cooperative farming may be introduced and cooperative marketing of agricultural products can be introduced as well as farmers be ensured by giving them proper guidance and training to run cooperative banks. However, at present, cooperatives are suffocating under government controls through the various acts etc passed by it. The cooperatives, once formed and those already existing, would have to be given a free hand to allow cooperative movement, particularly cooperative farming that which includes running of cooperative agricultural banks and cooperative agricultural marketing, to develop.
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Agriculture called the backbone of indian economy because most of part of the india is related from village and villagers directly depend upon the farming. ... now it has come to light that India's economy growth is not keeping with the expectations because it's agricultural growth is lagging behind