Visualizing Indian Economy
Agriculture: The agricultural sector in India operates at extremely low productivity and the need for reforms in this sector is imperative. Observe that despite a large fraction of the population involved in agriculture, the agricultural value addition to the economy has declined significantly and has stagnated at lower levels. What it needs now is a big push by the government. India also has excessively high usage of fertilizers, even diverging within its own local group of lower-middle-income countries. Even with increasing fertilizer usage, its cereal yields have not diverged. Thus, reckless consumption of fertilizer could have detrimental effects on soil productivity in the long run. Large fertilizer consumption has many determinants but one clearly visible here is a major fraction of un-irrigated land. Climate Change: This issue would be affecting individuals across borde