The government knew that Bengal had to invite private industry to compensate for stagnating agriculture growth and a moribund public sector.
He cut a scheduled meeting with the British and German leaders and threatened to veto any budget that did not protect "agriculture and growth".
This proposed shifting spending away from agriculture and towards growth-generating areas such as research and education.
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The much heralded Green Revolution of the 1960s, with its miracle seeds, made India self-sufficient in staple foods, but in the last decade agriculture's growth rate has notably stagnated.
Meanwhile compatriot, Ioan Niculae, returns with a fortune buffetted by growth in agriculture and fertilizers, both strong sectors across the globe.
Against the charge that some people have been left behind, Gujarat can point to reasonable growth in agriculture, helped by irrigation schemes.
"I would not like to look at agriculture as a different path to growth than raw materials in a country that has both, " he said.
He expects strong growth in the food and agriculture industry, plus the shares have a dividend yield of about 2.2%.
The economy is expected to grow about 2% this year and this growth rate hinges on the agriculture sector recovering after last year's drought.
Much of this optimism is coming from expectations for a big contribution from agriculture, and not investment-led growth, which may last longer and boost the beleaguered industrial sector.
So agriculture seems no better at cutting malnutrition than growth in general.
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One of my key longer-term themes for growth investing is and has been the Agriculture Play for a few years now.
Slightly more than half of the work force is in agriculture, but services are the major source of economic growth, accounting for more than half of India's output, with only one-third of its labor force.
Engel's law, however, does not mean that agriculture will, sooner or later, become a slow-growth sector.
The Guyanese economy exhibited moderate economic growth in recent years and is based largely on agriculture and extractive industries.
This idea is inherently hazardous as it hurts innovation in key sectors such as agriculture or manufacturing, which are paramount to India's growth going forward.
We have medical and information technology, low-cost agriculture, advanced educational methods, and a track record of growth that can help them achieve their version of this dream.
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Weakness struck the country's biggest growth engines, with expansion in manufacturing, construction and agriculture all in the low single digits.
Recent banking reforms have helped increase private-sector growth and investment, and the government has increased spending on agriculture to 7% of its budget.
These are supply side reforms in fiscal (taxation, especially corporate taxation, and government spending) policies and pro-competition and pro-growth changes in restrictive regulations (especially with respect to labor, agriculture, and land use).
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The company said demand in its agriculture and food segment remains strong, thanks at least in part to solid volume growth during the current summer months in Latin America.
"Restoring these waterways is not only important for improving the water that we all depend on, but for spurring economic growth and creating recreational opportunities in these communities as well, " said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
It may engineer growth by mobilising people and resources from low-productivity activities, like subsistence agriculture, toward industry.
The UN blames the massive migrations from rural areas either on population growth that the countryside cannot sustain or on economic prescriptions said to emphasize commercial agriculture over small farming, thus driving the poor off the land.
Even though China's ban on new GM crops is still in place, in July China's Minister of Agriculture Du Qinglin said that by 2020 more than 60% of China's ag output growth will come from biotech products.
Significant new economic growth, if it is achievable, will come mainly from successful deregulation initiatives in the agriculture and service sectors, which together make up over 70 percent of the economy.
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While the story of the world's old-growth forests would appear to be one of unremitting destruction, forests lost to logging and agriculture are actually growing back in some areas, such as the northeast region of the United States and parts of Europe.
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Despite a slow down in the overall economic growth rates of China, in my view, worldwide demographic trends related to population growth will continue to place supply pressures on several commodity types with supply capacity issues, notably agriculture and energy based commodities, while periods of market volatility will likely result in continued investor appetites for precious metals.
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Real GDP growth in the second quarter was revised down due, in part, to a downward revision to agriculture inventories as a result of the devastating drought our nation faced this summer.
In fact, this process is comparable to the use of fertilizers in agriculture, i.e. adding nutrients that are found to be lacking in the local environment to stimulate plant growth, in this case phytoplanckton that form the base of the marine food-chain.
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