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Village Economy sources
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India is one of the oldest surviving civilization & the biggest democracy in the world. It has a rich & diverse culture heritage & it has 2 of the world’s hot spots of drill. It ranks 2nd after china in terms of population, 1st in terms of animal population, 6th in terms of geographical area. It has the world’s 3rd largest country of technically trained manpower & is now one of the seven nuclear power. Its main land covers an area of 3.29 million sq. km or 329 million hectares measures about 3214 km from north to south between the extreme and about 2933 km from east to west between the extreme lands. Over the last 60 years since independence, India has achieved impressive progress in the field of science & technology & management, & is now self-sufficient in food grains and milk production.On the negative side, India has not yet been able to fully develop & harness its human & natural resources for the benefit of its people, & it has yet to solve its problems of literacy, poverty, unemployment & natural climates problems.
Human population
According to 2011, population census, India’s population was 1028.7 million which accounted for 72.25 % of the country’s total population. Of the total rural population, 127.3 million were cultivators & 106.8 million agricultural workers. Acc. To the global human development report, India rank 128 among countries with medium human development out of 177 countries of the world.
Village Economy sources
1) Agricultural
2) Animal population
3) Land resources
4) Water resources
5) Forest resources
6) Fishery resources
7) Source of raw material
8) Resources of foreign exchange: Agriculture is an important source of earning foreign exchange, which is needed for importing capital goods for the rapidly expanding industrial sector. Agriculture makes its contribution to net foreign exchange through the displacement of current & potential imports, and through expended exports. In the year 2005-06 the value of agricultural exports was Rs 49803 crore. This accounted for about 11% of total value of exports. From India in the year. The value of agricultural imports in the same year was Rs 21026 crore, which accounted for 3.3% of India’s total imports. The shares of agriculture commodities in the total exports of India have been excellent declining over time. It decline from 17.7% on1996-97 to 11% in 2005-06. This is due to the fact that the export of non-agricultural commodities has been increasing at a faster rate than the export of agricultural commodities.