Introduction

Introduction

Agriculture is considered to be one of the first reasons for people to settle in one place. Before the advent of agriculture, people were wanderers who search for food from one place to another. They settle at one place for some time, get the food they need, and leave the place.

With the discovery of agriculture, they started living in one place. They started to settle at one place as it requires months for the crop to be fully prepared to harvest. When they started settling at one place, they form communities. They started living together in one place; it develops societies and leads the foundation of modern culture.

When they started living, they need some rules and regulations to maintain peace and resolve any conflict in their society. They started following some basic rules, and they passed from generation to generation, and these rules got ingrained in their culture. It eventually led to the development of modern laws, which now we have. Agriculture was the basic foundation of civilized society.

With the advancement of civilization, there was a need to regulate agriculture in India. The various period of history with the various empires and civilizations has a different approach towards agriculture. We have discussed the history of agriculture from pre-independence to post-independence era: farmers’ economic strength and income in India in the 21^st century.