Mamta Dhama and Sudhir Kumar
Department of Botany, Janta Vedic College, Baraut, Baghpat (U.P.)
Abstract: Our country India was totally dependent on food imports to feed its population. India today is not only self-sufficient in grain production but also has a substantial reserve. The progress made by agriculture in the last four decades has been one of the biggest success stories of free India. Agriculture and allied activities constitute the single largest contributor to the Gross Domestic Product, almost 33 percent of it. Agriculture is the means of livelihood of about two-thirds of the workforce in the country.
Keywords: Pulses, Wheat, Green revolution, Gross Cropped Area percentage, Statistical data.
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