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Explain the contemporary agricultural scenario in the context of rapid urbanizations in India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Agriculture

Johann Heinrich von Thünen argued in 1826 that around any market the land-use pattern arranges itself in concentric rings, because locational rent falls with distance at a rate set by transport cost and the perishability of the product. The innermost ring is therefore taken by intensive market gardening and dairying, which cannot bear the cost…

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