Dependence on Agricultural Employment: a Regional Analysis

Type Working Paper - International Refereed Journal of Reviews and Research
Title Dependence on Agricultural Employment: a Regional Analysis
Author(s)
Volume 2
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
URL http://irjrr.com/irjrr/January2014/7.pdf
Abstract
After six decade of independence there has been drastic change in sector wise contribution to the GDP in India. For development of an economy the contribution of the secondary and tertiary sector is desirable in terms of income, employment generation and modernization of the country. Ironically this is not working in case of Indian economy. The contribution of agriculture to the GDP during the independence was more than 50 percent, now it has declined to only 13 percent. However the dependence on the agriculture is still more than 40 percent in all India level. More than 40 percent labor force contributing only the 13 percent of national income one can imagine the plight of the people who engage in the primary sector resulting disguise unemployment, low wage rate and low income in the rural India. Paper shows that still there is high proportion of male and female workforce engage in agriculture. Female participation has increase as an agricultural labor.

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