Explain how negligence towards agriculture gave rise to large scale unemployment in India.

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answered Aug 30, 2022 by SayantaniGhosh (83.3k points)
selected Aug 31, 2022 by Vineshk

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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. So, agriculture planning should be such which can generate employment first for the rural youths.
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.
The non-agricultural sectors are also not developed in rural areas. Hence, rural youths having no option to earn had to migrate to cities in search of employment. Also, they face high rate of seasonal and disguised unemployment.