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How seeds of green evolution helped Madhya Pradesh sow national growth in agriculture

In Madhya Pradesh, the agriculture sector has been recording 20 per cent plus growth successively for the past five years.

Compared to the dismal agricultural scenario in the rest of the country, Madhya Pradesh has been presenting a different picture for the past few years. According to advance estimates, growth in the sector would be 29.1 per cent in 2016 17, and with the economic survey projecting a 4.1 per cent growth in agriculture at

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