International Journal of Reviews and Research in Social Sciences

Shiva Kant Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Geography, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, IN

Abstract

Indian economy is basically agrarian economy. On 2.4 percent of world land India is managing 16 percent of world population. At the time of independence, more than half of the national income was contributed by agriculture. At the same time more than 70 percent of total population was dependent on agriculture.

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