The share of agriculture in gross domestic product (GDP) has reached almost 20 percent for the first time in the last 17 years, making it the sole bright spot in GDP performance during 2020-21, according to the Economic Survey 2020-2021. The resilience of the farming community in the face of adversities made agriculture the only sector to have clocked a positive growth of 3.4 percent at constant prices in 2020-21, when…
