<P> Contribution to GDP of India by economic sectors of Indian economy have evolved between 1951 and 2013, as its economy has diversified and developed . </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, healthcare, 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 . The sector employed 49% of its total workforce in 2014 . Agriculture accounted for 23% of GDP, and employed 59% of the country's total workforce in 2016 . 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> <P> India receives an average annual rainfall of 1,208 millimetres (47.6 in) and a total annual precipitation of 4000 billion cubic metres, with the total utilisable water resources, including surface and groundwater, amounting to 1123 billion cubic metres . 546,820 square kilometres (211,130 sq mi) of the land area, or about 39% of the total cultivated area, is irrigated . India's inland water resources and marine resources provide employment to nearly six million people in the fisheries sector . In 2010, India had the world's sixth - largest fishing industry . </P>

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