Why the Productivity Trends in Agriculture in very low? In spite of the significance of agriculture in the Indian economy, per capital productivity in agriculture is less in comparison to the productivity in other sectors of the economy..
The causes for low productivity of Indian agriculture can be divided into 3 broad categories, namely, (1) General factors, (2) Institutional factors and (3) Technological factors.
In India, a sharp decline in birth rate is the need of the hour. The death rate is already low at 9 per thousand and is expected to decline further. In such a situation, if the birth rate doesn’t fall then it will further increase the population of an already over-populated country.