Agricultural growth has been fairly volatile over the past decade, ranging from 5.8% in 2005-06 to 0.4% in 2009-10 and -0.2% in 2014-15.
In the recent past, growth rates of agriculture have been fluctuating at 1.5% in 2012-13, 5.6% in 2013-14, (-) 0.2% in 2014-15, 0.7% in 2015-16 and 4.9% in 2016-17 (PE).
The rise in per-capita agricultural production has gone a long way toward easing pressure on meeting food and nutrition security of the country. Unfortunatley, however, growth in agricultural output is characterized by fluctuations, each high growth period is followed by a phase of low growth.
