Why can't an agrarian economy cannot be devoloped???

[Nikhil hatwar]

We are counted amongst the economies based on agriculture. And this is in real sense our point of progress. All developed nations have capitalist economy.Why Can't any developed ecomomy be agrarian???

[devesh mishra]

coz environmental conditions & govt. policies are not favourable for farmers in india most of the time.....we wasted lots of agricultural land for the sake of industrial development & SEZ.

[Nikhil hatwar]

But,, Indian govt. stress more on agriculture and even makes policies in favour of farmers. India has a monsoon climatic conditions which are most suitable for agriculture..!! All these factor indicates India has good control over its agiculture and also that a large part of its income comes from agrcultural sector. Then why it cannot become a developed nation with agririan economy???

[Ivy]

An Agrarian economy too can become a developed economy provided the cultivation is done efficiently and on scientific lines.The problems faced by most of the agrarian economies are disguised unemployment, unscientific cultivation,over dependence on rainfall...etc, which is very much evident in case of India.

[Ivy]

We cannot rule out the possibility of an agrarian economy becoming developed.here we must understand the difference between economic growth and economic development.Development means better standard of living, low levels of poverty, inequality, better per capita income..etc and not mere economic growth which means increase in per capita income only.

In case of India, India cannot become a developed country with its agrarian status because of the pressure of the population . Actually we need only 1/3rd of the population in agriculture to ensure food security in the country. The rest 2/3rd can engage in other activities like manufacturing,services..etc.In India at the present more than 60% of the population are engaged in primary sector activities but contributes only 17.8% of the GDP.This is because of the presence of disguised unemployment and high population pressure on cultivable land ...etc leading to congestion, negative externality, decrease in productivity...etc

Economic development in case of India is possible only when it involves a steady decline in the share of population engaged in agriculture and an increase in the share of population in industries, trade, banking, construction, services..etc. ie. a change in the economic and occupational structure.This can lead to improvement in skills and productivity in all the sectors and reduce pressure on land.

[Paul Ortiz-Baca]

Wel that was Tomas Jefferson's dream, at least for the United States. In fact, here in America we do grow far more crops than are ever actually consumed. Most is fed as grains to animals in factory farms. This is somewhat ironic because despite the massive food production only 3% of the population actually works in agriculture. It's become so mechanized that very few people can actually produce massive amounts of food. It has put a lot of farmers out of business as gigantic corporations with massive farms have taken over.