Assessing the Interdependence of Agriculture Growth and Rural Development in India (for 2012 – 2022)

As per all the available data and statistics in India it has been observed that productivity, growth, and modernization in the agriculture sector has far reaching beneficial impacts on rural developments in terms of better resource utilizations, structural transformation (workers skills, employability, small scale entrepreneurship), food security and nutrition, food prices, rural poverty, rural healthcare, technological methods in farming and many more. Most significantly the fact that agriculture driven growth tends to be more pro-rural compared with other economic sectors in the country, this has a direct connect to a better living standard for rural population by improving their earning potentials. Use of technology has also played a key role in helping the rural regions to acquire instant information and new skills learning and are able to understand market needs or demands. The focus has largely shifted from just producing crops to creating a well-planned farming activity, improving product quality, and building a more robust food value chain and creating new ancillary services. This paper studied various factors in the agriculture sector for last decade and defined a dependency of some of these factors such as Agriculture productivity data, Gross value addition and credit flow to the sector tend to show a bigger contribution and impact towards Rural development.