Ch 4Agriculture Sector — Class 12 Economics, concept-first.

This chapter is part of the Andhra Pradesh Intermediate Economics (BIEAP) syllabus for Class 12 Commerce, and looks at the agriculture sector — its role in the economy, the pattern in which land is cr…

Cropping pattern refers to the proportion of area under different crops, and the sequence in which crops are grown on a piece of land, at a given time and place.

The Green Revolution refers to the sharp rise in foodgrain production, particularly wheat and rice, achieved in India from the mid-1960s onward through a package of high-yielding variety (HYV) seeds,…

Irrigation is the artificial application of water to land to supplement rainfall for crop cultivation.

Agricultural finance refers to the credit and funds farmers need to meet both short-term (seeds, fertiliser, labour — crop loans) and long-term (land improvement, irrigation, machinery — term loans) r…

Agricultural marketing covers all the activities involved in moving farm produce from the farmer to the final consumer — assembling, grading, storage, transport, financing and sale — and is a chapter…

Successive governments have undertaken institutional and policy reforms to raise agricultural productivity, improve farmers' incomes, and correct the problems that persist in financing, marketing and…

Sample papers and previous-year board questions for this subject.