11+ Agriculture Sector On The Eve Of Independence Images US. India is an agricultural economic majority of the people engaged in the agriculuture sector. On the contrary, the britishers continued to extract profits which broke the knees of indian agricultural sector.
On the eve of independence indian economy was backward from industrial point of view there was deficiency of basic and heavy industries.
India's agriculture sector was burdened with surplus labour and had extremely low productivity. Employment in the agriculture sector as share at the time of indian independence, this sector had the biggest share in the gross domestic product of india. On the eve of 67thanniversary of our independence, i extend warm greetings to you and to all indians around the world. India's economy under the british colonial rule remained fundamentally agrarian — about 85 per cent of the contrast it.