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Abstract Inadequate agriculture production laid at the heart of India's development problems in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's. The rural sector, comprising agriculture and ancillary activities such as animal husbandry, forestry and fishing was the foundation of the colonial economy. It employed about three-quarters of the workforce and produced well over half of national income between the 1860s and 1940s. However, there were also sever productivity constraints, linked to the problems of labor utilization, as well as an endemic scarcity of capital and a lack of investment in irrigation and other capital inputs, creating in turn a shortage of productive land. World Wars are also responsible for the scarcity of agricultural production in India. Governmental measures, such as grant of subsidies for sinking wells, interest free takkavi loans for purchase of seeds, manures etc., were adopted by the Government for the encouragement of agriculture. This paper focuses on the measures taken by the Indian Government for the development of Indian Agriculture.