Agriculture continues to be the backbone of Indian economy and rightly remains amajor thrust area in geography. Agricultural geographers in India have diversified theirinterests and have ventured into significant areas of analysis such as land capabilityclassification, agro-ecological concerns, crop diversification and diffusion, problems offood security and vulnerability, dairy farming apart from social and institutional framework of agriculture.
Industrial Geography
In spite of tremendous potential in this field of research, particularly in the postliberalization phase, not much work appears to have been made. Very few papers havebeen published in this branch of geography in leading journals of India. As industry alongwith agriculture is the backbone of the nation’s economy, the geographers can neglectthis field of inquiry only at their own peril. This is particularly true in the context of avibrant trend of research in this field during the eighties and nineties.
