Sharma, H.L.

Agriculture paving the way for sustainable growth - Kurukshetra: A Journal of Rural Development - 71(9), Jul, 2023: p.44-50

Agriculture continues to be most crucial sector of Indian economy. Over the past seven decades, the country as experienced substantial growth in food grain production, outpacing population growth and resulting in s significant increase in per capita availability of foodgrains. The liberalisation of the economy has led to a transformation of the farm sector, shitting from traditional, food crops to commercial and horticultural crops. Due to remarkable progress of this sector. India has emerged as the seventh largest exporter of agricultural precuts in the world. – Reproduced