Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 7.1
Indian industrial districts. The three different orders are categorized by Indian
geographers on the basis of number of workers. (Based on Dutt & Geib 1987.)
the population, still largely rural, and still farming at subsistence level.
Agriculture has certainly had this sustaining function for India's 850 million
people in the early 1990s.
A most notable success has been that of wheat production, up from 6.6 million
tons in 1949-50, to 50 million tons per year in the 1990s. Other grains were less
striking in their results, and the success with wheat was partly due to its role in
“green revolution” technology, which had less impact on some traditional crops
of marginal areas, such as barley, millet, sorghum and the bean family.
