Development Perspective for Indian Agriculture-A Hopeful View

A Hopeful View C H Shah Indian agriculture has shown resilience and growth potential since the 1920s, but particularly so since national planning brought with it greater intervention and investment directly by the State, Thus extention of cropped area with irrigation, institutional innovations for supporting extension work and investment, and the technological breakthrough with the Green Revolution, respectively, over the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, have certainly propelled the growth of Indian agriculture.