India’s tryst with agriculture is eminent as it accounts for 18 per cent of India’s GDP and employs over 50 per cent of the workforce. India is also one of the largest producers of rice, pulses, wheat, spice and cashews. Also allied products like poultry, fisheries, food grains and meat products. Also, horticultural and floricultural plantations provide more employment and opportunities.
Agriculture provides lucrative business opportunities in things like groundnut, pulses, sugarcane, tea, jute, cotton and wheat. Also agricultural exports constitute one-fifth of total exports thus making it the most important money making and promising arena.