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The growth in real incomes in the period of 2002-03 seems the most appropriate index to deflate nominal to 2018-19, works out to 5.3%, 4.1%, and 3.4%, depending incomes to know the real purchasing power of their upon the deflators such as wholesale price index, GDP incomes. [...] The structural shift in agriculture and its impact on farmers’ incomes During the last 70 years or so, share of from the cities to villages due to the agriculture in overall GDP has declined lockdowns) before settling at 45.8% in sharply from 54% in 1950-51 to 18% in 2023- 2022-23 (Figure 3). [...] However, the share of the workforce of labour out of agriculture means that engaged in agriculture has declined the average holding size has declined from 70% in 1950-51 to only 45.8% in 2022- from 2.3 ha in 1970-71 to 1.08 ha in 2015- 23. [...] Understanding 72% in 1951 to 45% in 2011 while that of the relevant causes for the changing labourers rose from 28% in 1951 to almost pattern of the agricultural workforce is a 55% in 2011 (Figure 3). [...] Continuing policies of 1960s when to persist in cultivating rice and wheat, India was living from ‘ship to mouth’ especially in Punjab-Haryana belt? The situation, in 2024 and beyond when India answer lies in the legacy of MSP and has been the largest exporter of rice (22 open-ended procurement in this belt in MMT in 2022-23 accounting for 40% of the wake of green revolution in late global trade o.