Agriculture Growth-A life line to Inclusive Growth

Basically India has predominantly been an agrarian economy with agriculture sector contributing a big share (18%) to Gross Domestic product (GDP) and employment about 52% of the population was dependent on the agriculture sector for their livelihood. So India's agriculture sector continues to be the life line of its people. In fact long term average growth in agriculture has been close to 2% and Indias’ population has been growing at 1.4%. Consequently, India has just managed to maintain its per capita growth in food and non food crop production. In the post Independence era, stagnant production, low productivity, traditional technology, and poor rural infrastructure were the major challenges in Indian agriculture sector. To overcome these challenges agriculture development received the highest priority. The agriculture sector provides food security to 125 crore people in India. For inclusive growth and overall development of Indian economy agriculture growth is indespensible.