Ch 8Agriculture Sector — Class 12 Economics, concept-first.

Agriculture is the primary economic activity of producing crops, and along with allied activities such as animal husbandry, fisheries, and forestry, it forms the agriculture and allied sector of the e…

Features of Indian agriculture

The Green Revolution refers to the sharp, technology-driven increase in foodgrain productivity -- mainly of wheat and later rice -- that India experienced from the mid-to-late 1960s onward.

Irrigation is the artificial application of water to agricultural land, and it plays a central role in Indian agriculture because a large share of the country's net sown area still depends on the mons…

Farmers need credit for two broad purposes: short-term/working capital needs (purchase of seeds, fertiliser, pesticides, payment of wages) and medium-to-long-term/fixed capital needs (land improvement…

Agricultural marketing covers all the activities involved in moving farm produce from the farmer/producer to the final consumer -- assembling, grading, storage, transport, and sale.

Beyond the marketing and finance reforms discussed above, Indian agricultural policy since independence has included a wider set of reforms aimed at improving productivity, equity, and farmer welfare.

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