It is instructive to note that 49.7 per cent India’s population is engaged in agriculture, but that it still has more than 194.6 million undernourished people which constitute 15.4 per cent of the country’s total population. As the sector contributes only 17.8 per cent to India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), it points to one phenomenon- agricultural sector in India is facing a policy paradox. According to Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, a famine of livelihood opportunities as a result of poor growth of opportunities for employment in the rural non-farm and off-farm sectors has led to a famine of food at the household level.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/25022016-in-poor-health-india-needs-to-urgently-push-for-agrarian-reforms-analysis/
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