Agriculture is the mainstay of India. Even today about 57 percent of Indian population is engaged in agriculture and is dependent on it. However the contribution of agriulture to India’s GDP has reduced over the years, from 50 percent in 1950 to 17.9 percent in 2014-15. Several reforms have been introduced in the country in various sectors that have directly impacted the growth of sectors such as industry, service and so on and so forth and today these sector are contributing more than double to the GDP. The inputs into the agricultural sector have not matched with the scale of this sector and therefore the contribution of agriculture to GDP is reducing.
