Question

Currently, agriculture performs a supporting role in developing world—it supports the urban industrial sector. Are you satisfied with this role or do you want to advocate a different role for agriculture?

Answer 1

Agriculture in the developing countries is the most performing sector as in the initial stage the countries suffer from lack of capital and the per capita income of the inviduals are also very low so savings is relatively very low at those countries and as savings is low then also investment is also vrey low and without huge investments and capital accumulation the growth of industrial or tertiary sector is impossible.so this is the main problem of developing countries.but now days things are changed as foreign multinational companies invest in those countries so the industrial sector also improves so the portion of agricultue sector in GDP starts to fall but it doesn't mean that the agricultural sector is not important anymore.as it support the urban industries many way like many industries used agricultural goods as raw materials so to improve those sctors agriculture have to improve itself.if the particular goods production falls due to weather then the industry production associate with this sector is also very much affected.here we consider a simple example like in the sugar industry the main raw material is sugarcane but if the production of sugarcane hampers the production of sugar also falls drastically.on the other terms it helpsthe urban industries by creating demand.although industry sector is improved but almost 60%or above people engaged in the primary sector so there is a huge demand in the agriculatural sector of urban industy products.but somehow the involvemts of the agricultural sector are limited as when urban industry sector is strated growing the government starts neglate the agricultural sector despite almost 50% or above people are engaged in this sector directly or indirectly.but we should never forgot the agricultural sector provides foods to all over the country.if the country has to import foods then the import burden will increase.but if agricultural sector improves then we can also earn from exporting foods and agricultural goods to others countries.but although the average productivity is very low if we compare it to the developed countries.the per capita productivity is nearly half or one third compare to developed countries.so there needs to improvement in this sectors like advanced machinaries high-yield crops etc.now the most important things is as more over 50% people involved in this sector and they only hold 20% or less than 20% of the NAtional income that means the per capita income of the indivuals involved in these sector is very low.as most of the people can't earn the minimal amount which needs to lead a helthy life and many peoples are suffer from severe poverty.although they produce foods but at the end of the day they can't get a heathly food or proper diet which a man needs to survive.so the government has to take strong actions on this to improvement of those people who are the backbone of the economy.government have to provide them proper diets,health facilities easy debt facilities minimal floor pricing of produced goods to improve their situation.as their situation starts to improve then they can also increase the demand for unber industry products more and more which can lead the economy to a constat growth overtime.