Relationship between Farm and Allied Non-Farm Sectors: Issues Relating to Linkages and Future of Agriculture

摘要

The farm and allied non-farm sectors play an increasingly complementary role in India's rural economy. Technological advancement has strengthened farm and non-farm linkages and their dependence on each other. Since agriculture is the primary producerof food and a potential market for industrial goods, the linkages with agriculture are quite significant, and essential for the "rural-led strategy of development." Green revolution technology during late 1960s brought agriculture to the centrestage of debate on economic growth, and to the notion that agriculture could drive economic growth, through the functioning of the 'forward' and 'backward' production linkages from the other sectors to agriculture. Further, increase in agricultural incomes broughtabout by new technology created 'consumption' linkages, via increased consumer demand for non-agricultural goods and services.