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Article: Agri growth rate revised upwards to 3.5 per cent: Sen.
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- May 29, 2008
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Agri growth rate revised upwards to 3.5 per cent: Sen
New Delhi, May 29 (PTI) The country's agriculture sector, which accounts for nearly 17 per cent of the GDP, grew by a healthy 3.5 per cent in 2007-08 than the initially estimated 2.6 per cent.
"The final estimates in agriculture are much higher...It could be 3.5 per cent in the revised estimates", Statistics and Programme Implementation secretary Pronab Sen said today, a day ahead of release of GDP growth figures for FY'08.
The ...