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Abstract
India stands second, next to China with the population of 1.27 billion. It is the seventh largest country with an area of 3.288 million sq kms.India is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses and jute, and ranks as the second largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruits and cotton. It is also one of the leading producers of spices, fish, poultry, and livestock and plantation crops. Worth $2.1 trillion, India is the world’s third largest economy after the US and china. India Economic growth is 6.81 per cent in the financial year 2018 on improved performance in both industry and service sector. The main objective f the study is (I)to examine the role of agriculture for sustainable economic growth. (ii)To analysis the agriculture sector contribution in the GDP of India. (iii) To suggest suitable Strategies for Sustainable Agricultural Development of the country. Simple Percentage method and Least Square method were implemented to project the GDP Growth rate of next three years. In the Year 1950-51 the contribution of agriculture sector was 51.9 and it was fallen to 14.39 in the fiscal year 2018-19.It was also projected that in the year 2021 the agriculture sector contribution will be 9.03 percent. Most of the Indians are directly or indirectly depending on the agriculture. Some are directly attached with the farming and some other people are involved in doing business with these goods. Though agriculture play a vital role in the economic development the importance to product sustains and develops it has been in the rear side. All the three sector of an economy are important, but only a developed agricultural sector will lead to comprehensive economic growth. For sustainable Economic Growth the entire three sectors should grow sustainably.