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9 major challenges to Indian agriculture

 India is primarily an agricultural country, as the sector provides livelihood to more than 50% of the population and contributes 17-18% to the country’s GDP.  The two big drivers of food demand—population and income—are on the increase.  The current population of India is 1,376,789,039 as of Monday, April 6, 2020, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.  India 2020 population is estimated at 1,380,004,385 people at mid year in line with UN data.  India population is comparable to 17.7% of the entire world population.  Since we all need food to survive no matter what is your profession, cast, creed, religion because after all we are living beings and require energy to grow.  Thus, agriculture becomes one among the foremost important sector of our economy demands insightful attention from every citizen of nation to reach a powerful level of food production to assist in feeding the growing world population.  So, that not even a s