<P> India started recovery in 2014--15 when the growth rate accelerated to 7.2% . In 2015, India went through a startup boom and manufacturing expanded in 2015--16 with growth of 7.6% . For the first time since 1990, India grew faster than China which registered 6.9% growth in 2015 . In mid-2015, during the global stock market rout, India witnessed a sharp fall in stock markets and the rupee; this repeated in January 2016 . India's economic growth is expected to be 8.0% + for 2016--17 . </P> <P> India is ranked 130th out of 190 countries in the World Bank's 2017 ease of doing business index . In terms of dealing with construction permits and enforcing contracts, it is ranked among the 10 worst in the world, while it has a relatively favourable ranking when it comes to protecting minority investors or getting credit . The strong efforts taken by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) to boost ease of doing business rankings at the state level is said to impact the overall rankings of India . </P> <P> Historically, India has classified and tracked its economy and GDP in three sectors: agriculture, industry and services . Agriculture includes crops, horticulture, milk and animal husbandry, aquaculture, fishing, sericulture, aviculture, forestry and related activities . Industry includes various manufacturing sub-sectors . India's definition of services sector includes its construction, retail, software, IT, communications, hospitality, infrastructure operations, education, health care, banking and insurance, and many other economic activities . </P> <P> India ranks second worldwide in farm output . Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 17% of the GDP and employed 49% of its total workforce in 2014 . As the Indian economy has diversified and grown, agriculture's contribution to GDP has steadily declined from 1951 to 2011, yet it is still the country's largest employment source and a significant piece of its overall socio - economic development . Crop - yield - per - unit - area of all crops has grown since 1950, due to the special emphasis placed on agriculture in the five - year plans and steady improvements in irrigation, technology, application of modern agricultural practices and provision of agricultural credit and subsidies since the Green Revolution in India . However, international comparisons reveal the average yield in India is generally 30% to 50% of the highest average yield in the world . The states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar, West Bengal, Gujarat and Maharashtra are key contributors to Indian agriculture . </P>

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