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of foodgrains through the schemes like PM Gareeb Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY). A review
of India’s food management programme including food procurement, allocation, storage
and the issue of food subsidy along with various Government measures for effective food
and nutritional security is also presented at length in the chapter. The chapter ends with
a review of the performance of fertilizer sector.

INTRODUCTION

7.1 The agriculture and allied sectors grew at a positive growth rate of 3.6 per cent during
2020-21. This became possible due to good monsoon and various government measures to
enhance credit availability, improve investments, create market facilities, promote infrastructure
development in the agriculture sector and increase provision of quality inputs to the sector. The
timely intervention in the form of Atma Nirbhar Bharat (ANB) Abhiyan coupled with other
growth promoting schemes (ANB and other schemes are discussed under respective sections)
have further helped agriculture to achieve an improved growth of 3.9 per cent in 2021-22.
Figure 1 presents the performance of the agriculture and allied sectors for the last five and half
years.

Figure 1: Growth of Agriculture and Allied Sectors (per cent)

Source: First Advance Estimates of National Income, 2021-22

7.2 The growth of agriculture & allied sectors as shown in the Figure 1 should be read with
Figure 2 depicting the growth in the four constituents of agriculture & allied sectors namely
crops, livestock, forestry & logging and fishing & aquaculture. It is observed that livestock and
fisheries have been experiencing buoyant growth and has helped the sector perform well. For
instance in 2018-19 the growth in the agriculture was buoyed by the performance of livestock
and fisheries even though the growth of GVA for crops was -1.6 per cent.