Yes, I agree with the statement that our agricultural production received a set back due to the partition of the country India’s agricultural production received a further set back due to the country’s partition at the time of independence. A sizeable portion of the undivided country’s highly irrigated and fertile land went to Pakistan this had an Adverse impact upon India’s output from the agriculture sector.
Particularly affected was India’s jute industry since almost the whole of the jute producing area became part of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). India’sjute goods industry (in which the country had enjoyed a world monopoly so far), thus, suffered heavily for lack of raw material.
