Question

why is it necessary to maintain a balance between development agriculture and industries in a country like India​

Answer 1

We know how agriculture contributes to economic development and then how industry contributes towards development. However, the issue of choice of one sector over the other remains unresolved as far as economic policy is concerned.

Truly speaking, these two sectors are not to be viewed as competitive but are complementary to each other. In practice, the futures of agriculture and industry are closely linked with each other in the sense that expansion in agriculture depends on the supply of industrial inputs and the expansion in industry is tied up with the development of the agricultural activity. J. L. Nehru observed in 1963 that agriculture is more important than industry as industry depends on agriculture.