This particular ppt deals about the role of agriculture in indian economy.How agricultural marketing and green revolution had shown its impact.How organic farming might help in agricultural development.It also deals about different types of rural credit

3. Agriculture is the major source of livelihood for the
people and important source of income for the
economy. Agriculture plays a very important role in
India’s economic development. Therefore in order to
achieve development of Indian economy , agricultural
or rural development has to be accorded a top priority.
This chapter focuses on various aspects of agricultural
or rural development. In particular , we discuss in
detail the issues of agricultural marketing and rural
credit.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT

4. • Share in national income
• Source of employment
• Provision of food grains
• Supply of raw materials to industrial sector
• Market for industrial products

5.  Earner of foreign exchange
 Significance of Trade and Transport
 Source of revenue for the government
Thus, it is obvious that agriculture occupies a central
place in the indian economy. In fact , agriculture
provides lifeblood to all the sectors of the economy .
Development of agriculture is a pre condition for the
general development of our economy

8. • Technological measures
• Infrastructural facilities
• Land reforms
• Policy of fixation of minimum support prices and
procurement prices
• Input subsidies to agriculture

9. • Food security system
• Rural employment programmes
• Programme of people’s participation
It is obvious from the above that a comprehensive
agricultural policy covering almost all the facets of
rural development has been evolved during the period
of planning

10. • Growth rate of output
• Increase in productivity
• Increase in production of agricultural crops

11. PERIOD GROWTH RATE
1950-1951 to 1980-1981 2.5
1981-1982 to 1996-1997 3.5
1997-1998 to 2003-2004 2.5
2004-2005 to 2012-2013 3.4
The low growth rate of agriculture along with the slowdown
in agricultural growth in recent years is the outcome of
number of factors,which include low level of public
investment in agriculture,exhaustion of the yield potential of
high yielding varieties of wheat and rice,low seeds
replacement rate,an inadequate incentive system,slowdown
of agricultural credit etc.

12. An important problem of Indian agriculture relates to
marketing of agricultural produce .Marketing of
agricultural produce involves several activities such as
collection and storage of agricultural goods ,their
transportation to the market place , their grading and
standardisation etc An efficient marketing system is a
prerequisite for agricultural development.

13.  Establishment of regulated markets
 Storage and warehousing facilities
 Uniform standard weights
 Grading and standardisation
 Marketing Information State trading in food
grains

15. Productive and unproductive
credit
Short medium and long term
credit
Non-institutional sources of
rural credit
Institutional sources of rural
credit
Types and sources
of rural credit

20. LAND DEVELOPMENT
BANKS
The Land Development Banks (LDBs) are essentiallyco-operativeinstitutions. All the
LDBs are registeredunder the Co-operative Societies Act. In a strict sense, however,
theyare semi co-operatives. In fact, theyare limited liabilityassociationsof
agricultural borrowers, as their members have limitedliability. Further, unlike other
co-operatives, LDBs do not have personal involvement in their functioning. A
remarkable progress has beenmade by the LDBs in providinglong-term finance to
the agriculturists. The totalnumber of LDBs (central and primary) increased from
481 in 1960-61 to 920 in 1984-85. In 1984-85theirnumber of membership hadgone
up to 10.6 lakhs. In 1984-85, their loans outstandingwere to the tuneof Rs. 3,643
crore and loanoverdues amountedto Rs. 409 crores.

21. REGIONAL RURAL
BANKS

23. Agricultural diversification refers to re-allocation of
productive resources such as land , labour , capital ,
farm equipments etc. in the agriculture sector in new
activities .This new activities can be new crops or
livestock products .Diversification primarily involves
substitution of one crop for another. It includes two
aspects
 Change in cropping pattern
 Shift of agricultural labour workforce

30.  Diversification of cropping pattern
 Diversification towards horticulture sector
 Diversification towards animal husbandry and fishery
sectors

32. Organic farming is the form of agriculture that relies on
techniques such as crop roatation , green manure ,
compost and biological pest control to maintain soil
productivity and control pests on a farm

33.  Organic farming can overcome the ill effects of
modern agricultural practices
 Organic farming is needed to achieve sustainable
agricultural development
 Organic farming would promote consumer welfare by
promoting eco-friendly methods in agriculture

34.  Protection of environment
 Provision of healthy and nutritional food
 Improvement in soil quality
 Increased employment oppurtunities
 Inexpensive inputs