Comparative Advantages of India Nature has given India several advantages. It has: • Second largest arable land in the world • Diverse agro-climatic zones across the country • Round the year sunshine • Potential to cultivate a vast range of agricultural products • Large marketable surpluses and abundant raw material for processing • Vast pool

State of Agriculture: Major Crops and Farming Sector Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy. Agricultural development is central to all strategies for planned development. It contributes 27 percent of the overall GDP and accounts for employment of 67 percent of the Indian population. Vast areas of India have tropical and agro-climatic conditions which are

Life Style Changes Huge population base of 1.08 billion, growing at about 1.6 percent per annum, provides a large and growing domestic market for food products. While food accounts for only 9.7 percent of the total private consumption expenditure for an average American, 15 percent for the Japanese & British, for the Indian it is

Demographics of India Geography India is located in the south of Asian continent. The country is bordered by the Arabian Sea to its west, the Bay of Bengal to its east and the Indian Ocean to its south. India lies to the north of the equator between 8.4 and 37.6 degrees north latitude and 68.7