I just cannot understand why govt or industries require only fertile or cultivated lands. To construct industrial building and install machinery why does some one need fertile lands? Industrialization is required and it is must, but that should not be at the cost of agriculture. People give examples of west industrialization, but they do not talk on what lands these industries are build. How many industries built on fertile lands in west? Moreover, what is the percentage of western population depended on agriculture when compared to India. What about huge subsidies western countries offer to their framers? In spite a huge population depended on agriculture we never had any productive agricultural reforms or farmer friendly initiatives.
Developing agriculture sector helps country in many ways: 1) Stops heavy rural migration to urban 2) Control rural poverty 3) High percentage of unskilled labour are engaged with work for most part of the year
Agricultural growth and Industrial growth are two eyes to the economy. By killing one eye and glorifying the other, we can never attain a sustainable economic growth. It always would be a one sided growth and more dangerous than a no growth.
