Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) in South Asia was reported at 15.69 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. South Asia - Agriculture, value added (% of GDP) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

The average for 2023 based on 11 countries was 11.22 percent. The highest value was in Burma (Myanmar): 22.72 percent and the lowest value was in Singapore: 0.03 percent. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Agricultural land (% of land area) in South Asia was reported at 58.26 % in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. South Asia - Agricultural land (% of land area) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

The average for 2022 based on 11 countries was 28.32 percent. The highest value was in India: 60.05 percent and the lowest value was in Singapore: 0.92 percent. The indicator is available from 1961 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) (modeled ILO estimate) in South Asia was reported at 42.58 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. South Asia - Employment in agriculture (% of total employment) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (annual % growth) in South Asia was reported at 1.6935 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. South Asia - Agriculture, value added (annual % growth) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

Agriculture is considered the backbone of the Indian economy. The existence of Indian agriculture is traced back to the Indus Valley culture. The importance of agriculture as a means of livelihood and trade in the pre-independence period is still alive today. Farming, once practiced in a traditional way, is now turning to modernity. If we look at this modernity from the Indian point of view, it is clear that the green revolution in the agricultural sector in the country after 1960 is a milestone. Going further, it can be seen that in 2007, the share of agriculture and allied sectors in the country's GDP was 16.6 percent. During the same period, 52% of the population in the country was engaged in agriculture. The share of agriculture in the country's 7 2.7 trillion economies in 2018-19 is about 15.9 percent and employment 49 percent. The dependence of the Indian people on agriculture and the contribution of the agricultural sector to the economic development of the country is declining day by day. The main objective of this research paper is to study the impact of the agricultural policies of this country so far and the plight of the farmers.

In financial year 2024, the gross domestic product for agriculture in the south-western Indian state of Maharashtra amounted to 2.28 trillion Indian rupees. This was a slight decrease from the previous year. GDP growth rate Interestingly, the real GDP growth rate for the country also saw a decline that year at about 6.12 percent as compared to the previous year. This decline was reflected in state deficits and inflation rates in the country. To revert these negative rates and prevent the Indian economy's collapse, the government had taken several measures in the 2020 budget. Some of the government's efforts to attract investments in the economy included a reduction in tax rates, improved capacity to spend in the rural sector, and infrastructure creation. Agriculture – the backbone of Indian economy The agriculture industry provided livelihoods for nearly 65 percent of the country's population in terms of direct and indirect employment. This made agriculture the backbone of Indian economy. The importance of agricultural products was further established as the primary source of raw material supply in the country's leading industries.

The average for 2022 based on 11 countries was 29.37 percent. The highest value was in Laos: 69.57 percent and the lowest value was in Singapore: 0.11 percent. The indicator is available from 1991 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

In 2023, 43.51 percent of the workforce in India were employed in agriculture, while the other half was almost evenly distributed among the two other sectors, industry and services. While the share of Indians working in agriculture is declining, it is still the main sector of employment. A BRIC powerhouseTogether with Brazil, Russia, and China, India makes up the four so-called BRIC countries. They are the four fastest-growing emerging countries dubbed BRIC, an acronym, by Jim O’Neill at Goldman Sachs. Being major economies themselves already, these four countries are said to be at a similar economic developmental stage -- on the verge of becoming industrialized countries -- and maybe even dominating the global economy. Together, they are already larger than the rest of the world when it comes to GDP and simple population figures. Among these four, India is ranked second across almost all key indicators, right behind China. Services on the riseWhile most of the Indian workforce is still employed in the agricultural sector, it is the services sector that generates most of the country’s GDP. In fact, when looking at GDP distribution across economic sectors, agriculture lags behind with a mere 15 percent contribution. Some of the leading services industries are telecommunications, software, textiles, and chemicals, and production only seems to increase – currently, the GDP in India is growing, as is employment.

Although the share of industry in GDP remained stable, it underwent significant fundamental changes. During this period, as a process of product restructuring, when a gross value was adjusted, production increased at current prices by 8 percent per annum. Then in 2004-09, the GDP growth rate increased to 20%. At the same prices, the annual but significant increase in employment was also 7.5 percent per annum. The work participation rate was 39.2 percent in 2009-10. Of these, 53 percent were in agriculture and the remaining 47 percent were in non-agricultural sectors. For the first time in the late 2000s, the number of perfect workers in the agricultural sector decreased. Unemployment in the economy as a whole has come down from 8.3 percent in 2004-05 to 6.6 percent in 2009-10. We can say that the Indian economy has performed well since 1991 but now the Indian economy is going through another turbulent period. The growth rate of the Indian economy has been slowing down since 2014. In addition to this, Kovid 19 has spread its legs in India and has slowed down the growth rate. The research paper will conclude the study of the Indian economy from 2014 to 2020, as well as three economic sectors.

In the financial year 2023, Australia's development assistance in South and West Asia was primarily allocated to the humanitarian sector, which received 51 percent of the aid. In contrast, agriculture, trade and other production services sector received only four percent of the aid.

The manufacturing industry in India has emerged as a fast-growing sector owing to the rapidly increasing population in the country. Investments in the sector have been on the rise and initiatives like ‘Make in India’ aim to the South Asian country into a global manufacturing hub. The annual production growth rate in the manufacturing industry was 4.7 percent percent during fiscal year 2023.

Foreign and domestic enterprises

The gross value added by the manufacturing sector in India has grown steadily however it is still lower than services sector. With the prospect of a huge consumer market, global giants such as Siemens, HTC, Toshiba have already set-up or are in the process of setting up manufacturing plants across the region. Apple has also been setting up nascent operations in India to diversify from China-centered production. On the other hand, the micro, small and medium enterprises sector is also crucial to transforming India from an agriculture-based economy to an industrialized one. MSME's contribution to Indian GDP has remained stable over the last few years.

The future

With technology reaching what previously were unimaginable heights in the last decade, industries need to keep up with the current trends and the technology. The focus is shifting towards machine learning to improve the efficiency and precision of the work. Almost 50 percent of the decision-makers in the machine learning industry believed that machine learning solutions have a high impact on organizations. ‘Smart manufacturing’, a combination of internet of things and artificial intelligence are expected to see a growth in the coming decade.

Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a rate of 2.53 percent in 2024. The Thai economy Thailand relies less on agriculture and more on employment in the service sector, which is a sign of a more advanced economy. This development is also apparent in its GDP per capita, which is one of the highest in Southeast Asia. One aspect of a developed economy is that it is more diverse, and thus less exposed to economic shocks. This statistic reflects that robustness in its optimistic view of Thai GDP growth. Domestic factors Thailand has posted an incredibly low unemployment rate for several years, which suggests that the workforce matches the demand for labor remarkably well. Equally important, the inflation rate tends to be low and stable, though sometimes too low. If Thailand wants to realize the positive projections in this statistic, the inflation rate of the baht should be between 2 and 3 percent, according to most economists.

Crops accounted for over 15 trillion Indian rupees in the Indian economy in fiscal year 2023. This value was steadily growing since fiscal year 2012. However, this sector showed a gradual declining trend in the output share within agriculture, forestry and fishing during this time period - from over 62 percent in fiscal year 2012 to 54.3 percent in fiscal year 2023.

Abstract

The millions of farmers of India have made significant contributions in providing food and nutrition to the entire nation and provided livelihood to millions of people of the country. During the five decades of planned economic development, India has moved from food-shortage and imports to self-sufficiency and exports. Food security and well being of the farmer appears to be major areas of concern of the planners of Indian agriculture. In order to have a snapshot picture of the farming community at the commencement of the third millennium and to analyze the impact of the transformation induced by public policy, investments and technological change on the farmers' access to resources and income as well as well-being of the farmer households at the end of five decades of planned economic development, Ministry of Agriculture have decided to collect information on Indian farmers through “Situation Assessment Survey” (SAS) on Indian farmers and entrusted the job of conducting the survey to National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO).

The Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers is the first of its kind to be conducted by NSSO. Though information on a majority of items to be collected through SAS have been collected in some round or other of NSS, an integrated schedule, viz., Schedule 33, covering some basic characteristics of farmer households and their access to basic and modern farming resources will be canvassed for the first time in SAS. Moreover, information on consumption of various goods and services in an abridged form are also to be collected to have an idea about the pattern of consumption expenditure of the farmer households.

Schedule 33 is designed for collection of information on aspects relating to farming and other socio-economic characteristics of farmer households. The information will be collected in two visits to the same set of sample households. The first visit will be made during January to August 2003 and the second, during September to December 2003. The survey will be conducted in rural areas only. It will be canvassed in the Central Sample except for the States of Maharashtra and Meghalaya where it will be canvassed in both State and Central samples.

Geographic coverage

The survey covered rural sector of Indian Union except (i) Leh (Ladakh) and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond five kilometres of the bus route and (iii) villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year.

Analysis unit

Household (farmer)

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Sample Design

Outline of sample design: A stratified multi-stage design has been adopted for the 59th round survey. The first stage unit (FSU) is the census village in the rural sector and UFS block in the urban sector. The ultimate stage units (USUs) will be households in both the sectors. Hamlet-group / sub-block will constitute the intermediate stage if these are formed in the selected area.

Sampling Frame for First Stage Units: For rural areas, the list of villages (panchayat wards for Kerala) as per Population Census 1991 and for urban areas the latest UFS frame, will be used as sampling frame. For stratification of towns by size class, provisional population of towns as per Census 2001 will be used.

Stratification

Rural sector: Two special strata will be formed at the State/ UT level, viz.

• Stratum 1: all FSUs with population between 0 to 50 and
• Stratum 2: FSUs with population more than 15,000.

Special stratum 1 will be formed if at least 50 such FSU's are found in a State/UT. Similarly, special stratum 2 will be formed if at least 4 such FSUs are found in a State/UT. Otherwise, such FSUs will be merged with the general strata.

From FSUs other than those covered under special strata 1 & 2, general strata will be formed and its numbering will start from 3. Each district of a State/UT will be normally treated as a separate stratum. However, if the census rural population of the district is greater than or equal to 2 million as per population census 1991 or 2.5 million as per population census 2001, the district will be split into two or more strata, by grouping contiguous tehsils to form strata. However, in Gujarat, some districts are not wholly included in an NSS region. In such cases, the part of the district falling in an NSS region will constitute a separate stratum.

Urban sector: In the urban sector, strata will be formed within each NSS region on the basis of size class of towns as per Population Census 2001. The stratum numbers and their composition (within each region) are given below. - stratum 1: all towns with population less than 50,000 - stratum 2: all towns with population 50,000 or more but less than 2 lakhs - stratum 3: all towns with population 2 lakhs or more but less than 10 lakhs - stratum 4, 5, 6, ...: each city with population 10 lakhs or more The stratum numbers will remain as above even if, in some regions, some of the strata are not formed.

Total sample size (FSUs): 10736 FSUs have been allocated at all-India level on the basis of investigator strength in different States/UTs for central sample and 11624 for state sample.

Allocation of total sample to States and UTs: The total number of sample FSUs is allocated to the States and UTs in proportion to provisional population as per Census 2001 subject to the availability of investigators ensuring more or less uniform work-load.

Allocation of State/UT level sample to rural and urban sectors: State/UT level sample is allocated between two sectors in proportion to provisional population as per Census 2001 with 1.5 weightage to urban sector subject to the restriction that urban sample size for bigger states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu etc. should not exceed the rural sample size. Earlier practice of giving double weightage to urban sector has been modified considering the fact that two main topics (sch. 18.1 and sch 33) are rural based and there has been considerable growth in urban population. More samples have been allocated to rural sector of Meghalaya state sample at the request of the DES, Meghalaya. The sample sizes by sector and State/UT are given in Table 1 at the end of this Chapter.

Allocation to strata: Within each sector of a State/UT, the respective sample size will be allocated to the different strata in proportion to the stratum population as per census 2001. Allocations at stratum level will be adjusted to a multiple of 2 with a minimum sample size of 2. However, attempt will be made to allocate a multiple of 4 FSUs to a stratum as far as possible. Selection of FSUs: FSUs will be selected with Probability Proportional to Size with replacement (PPSWR), size being the population as per population census 1991 in all the strata for rural sector except for stratum 1. In stratum 1 of rural sector and in all the strata of urban sector, selection will be done using Simple Random Sampling without replacement (SRSWOR). Samples will be drawn in the form of two independent sub-samples.

Note: Detail sampling procedure is provided as external resource.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Schedule 33 (Situation Assessment Survey) has been split into several blocks to obtain detailed information on various aspects of farmer households.

Block 0- Descriptive identification of sample household: This block is meant for recording descriptive identification particulars of a sample household.

Block 1- Identification of sample household: items 1 to 12: The identification particulars for items 1, 6 - 11 will be copied from the corresponding items of block 1 of listing schedule (Sch.0.0). The particulars to be recorded in items 2, 3, 4 and 5 have already been printed in the schedule.

Block 2- Particulars of field operation: The identity of the Investigator, Assistant Superintendent and Superintendent associated, date of survey/inspection/scrutiny of schedules, despatch, etc., will be recorded in this block against the appropriate items in the relevant columns.

Block 3- Household characteristics: Characteristics which are mainly intended to be used to classify the households for tabulation will be recorded in this block.

Block 4- Demographic and other particulars of household members: All members of the sample household will be listed in this block. Demographic particulars (viz., relation to head, sex, age, marital status and general education), nature of work, current weekly status, wage and salary earnings etc. will be recorded for each member using one line for one member.

Block 5- Perception of household regarding sufficiency of food: This block will record information about perception of households regarding sufficiency of food.

Block 6- Perceptions regarding some general aspects of farming: In this block some information regarding perception of the farmer household about some general aspects of farming are to be recorded.

Block 7- Particulars of land possessed during Kharif/Rabi: This block is designed to record information regarding the land on which farming activities are carried out by the farmer household during Kharif/Rabi.

Block 8- Area under irrigation during Kharif/Rabi: In this block information regarding the area under irrigation during last 365 days for different crops will be recorded according to the source of irrigation.

Block 9- Some particulars of farming resources used for cultivation during Kharif / Rabi: Information regarding farming resources used for cultivation during the last 365 days will be ascertained from the farmer households and will be recorded in this block.

Block 10- Use of energy during last 365 days: This block will be

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