The word agriculture is derived from the Latin language importance of agriculture. So we all know that India is an agricultural country . And we have been hearing this since the very beginning . That is , most of the people here are involved in agriculture, So no doubt that when so many people are involved in agriculture,  then maximum people will get national income. So agriculture plays a very important role in the Indian economy. Agriculture generates 24% of the nation’s income. Means, out of 100 rupees, 24 rupees comes from your agriculture and the rest is in other sectors. And which is 60% of the population of India, it is in agriculture, which means that 40% of the population is either they are doing service or they work in the industry. And until production does not come from agriculture, then you can think that no industry will serve. The industry which depends on the agricultural product also cannot survive without the product And the agriculture that plays an important role of development of industries and foreign trade. Because so many companies are, it depends on the agricultural product itself. Agriculture play the back bone of Indian economy.

Following one the role of agriculture in the India economy.

• 24% of the national income comes from agriculture.       
• There is 60% employment in agriculture.
• Supply of raw material: If we want to make any product, then we need items. Like we need seeds to make oil. We need cotton for textile industries, so all these sources we call raw material, The things from which any other product is made, we called it raw material like cotton, seeds accepted vet, all these raw materials are supplied to us from agriculture.
• Role A agriculture in international trade: About 70% of the products we export to other countries, we export products that are supplied from agriculture or apiculture. There are some important products which export from India. Like Tea, Sugar, Oils Seeds, Tobacco, Spices, Rubber are all agricultural products which we export to other countries.
• Contribution to GDP(Gross Domestic Product):Apart from the industries in our country, agriculture sector and human being contribute to the multi GDP.So we can say that agriculture plays a very important role in increasing GDP.Agriculture has contributed 51% in 1950-52, while between 2018 and 2019, only 14.4% was contributed But this does not mean that there is no importance of agriculture sector but agriculture also plays a very important role If the contribution of agriculture to GDP has been reduced, then the reason is because that the people who are they have started moving towards the secondary and territory sector They have moved out of the ruler area to Auburn Places and started working, so the agriculture contribution has come down a bit in GDP But still we will say that agriculture is very important for us.
• Supply of wage goods: We get oil, wheat, rice, all from agriculture. In India or outside country, we also need important stuff like oil, rice, wheat. All that we get from agriculture And you can see that in today’s time, 121 crore people in India get all these things from agriculture.85% of what we take every day is an agricultural product, while the remaining 15% comes from egg milk and meat.
• Source of employment: Agriculture is a huge source of employment because even today there are many people who depend on agriculture He grows crops on his farm and he himself takes consume and also earns money by selling it to the market 50% of the population is engaged in agriculture Agriculture is also taken care of in the economy planning that is made for India.

• Source of demand for industrial goods :The work of industrial goods is to make heavy products, make heavy machines And now our agriculture sector which is there demands this kind of machine Because we need tractor, compiler, all this in agriculture which comes from industries This means that agriculture demands industries to make machines and we will buy them So agriculture plays a very important role for industries as well.
• Support to transport industry :So we all know that rail, roadways, air comes in transport But agriculture, which is mostly beneficial for railways, roadways Like goods trains, trucks, food items go in all these, if there is no agriculture then there will be no sugar can then there will be no transport Means has also given maximum employment opportunity in this, Agriculture is also very important in transport industries.
• Wealth of Nation : The most important thing in our country is that we have agricultural land And there will be very few such countries in the world which have agricultural land So this is our heritage and we have to protect it and keep improving That’s why we would say that agriculture is very important to us because it is a wealth of nation.

And these are all the points due to which agriculture is considered important .