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Fuelled by technological change and backed by investment in irrigation, infrastructure (e.g., roads and electricity) markets and institutions (e.g., credit and extension) and enabling policies India experienced tremendous increase in agricultural productivity and food supplies that propelled the country into food selfsufficiency from a situation of acute food shortages in the 1960s and 1970s. Between 1966-67 and 2016-17 production of foodgrains increased by three-fold (from 95 to 275 million tonnes), of fruits and vegetables by seven-fold (from 40 to 268 million tonnes) and of milk by eight-fold (from 20 to 163 million tonnes). On the whole, agricultural sector during this period grew at an annual rate of around 3 per cent that helped millions of rural people escape poverty (Datt and Ravallion, 1998; Datt et al., 2016)

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Fuelled by technological change and backed by investment in irrigation, infrastructure (e.g., roads and electricity) markets and institutions (e.g., credit and extension) and enabling policies India experienced tremendous increase in agricultural productivity and food supplies that propelled the country into food selfsufficiency from a situation of acute food shortages in the 1960s and 1970s. Between 1966-67 and 2016-17 production of foodgrains increased by three-fold (from 95 to 275 million tonnes), of fruits and vegetables by seven-fold (from 40 to 268 million tonnes) and of milk by eight-fold (from 20 to 163 million tonnes). On the whole, agricultural sector during this period grew at an annual rate of around 3 percent that helped millions of rural people escape poverty (Datt and Ravallion, 1998; Datt et al., 2016).

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  • Birthal, Pratap S., 2019. "Fuelled by technological change and backed by investment in irrigation, infrastructure (e.g., roads and electricity) markets and institutions (e.g., credit and extension) and enabling policies India e," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 74(01), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:inijae:343436
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.343436
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