♦ India’s agricultural growth during 2015-24 stood at 4.42 percent, surpassing that of China’s at 4.10 percent, said NITI Aayog. During 2014–15 to 2023–24, income of agricultural producers grew at 10.11 percent annually, higher than manufacturing and total economy. The income of farmers too increased by 126 percent in ten years while producers’ income rose by 108 percent between 2015–16 and 2022–23. 

♦ This acceleration in income of the agricultural sector raised annual growth during 2015-16 to 2024-25 to the historically highest level of 4.45 per cent. India’s agriculture sector did not achieve this level of growth in any decadal period since 1950-51.

♦ According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, data on country-wise GDP, the agriculture sector in India achieved an average growth rate of 3 per cent during 2006-2015, which was the same as growth in world agriculture.