“Negligence towards agriculture has increased the problem of unemplo

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

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

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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.
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.