Question

“Negligence towards agriculture has increased the problem of unemployment in India.” Explain.

Answer 1

Negligence towards agriculture sector:

• India is an agricultural country and most of its population resides in villages. Naturally this population is dependent on agriculture for employment.
• During the planning period, India neglected agriculture and focused more on other sectors. Agriculture remained underdeveloped and gave rise to large scale unemployment.
• Although India achieved Green Revolution in agriculture but its benefit could be enjoyed by only a handful of states like Punjab and Haryana.
• On the top of this, burden of population, lack of irrigation facilities, lack Of agricultural finance, uncertainty of monsoon and few other uncertainties that led to poor development of agriculture.