Is agriculture the engine for growth???

A few people reading this may find it boring. But as i have no other thoughts in my mind to share with you i have to do with this post. This is one topic which we got in a GD class in TIME. When i heard this topic from our faculty the first person who i was thought of was ....... . Well those knowing him would have guessed the name. Yes Yes it is jarda ( alias Shivanshu Tamolia my classmate and one of my best buddies) . I am not saying that he is a farmer of sorts, but he owns land and is likely to pursue farming in the occurence of another recession.

Actually i didn't get a chance to speak in that GD so i thought that may be i can share my thoughts with everyone here.

So.. jokes apart...let's get back to the topic...

Agriculture...hmmm...
Well...i think that Agriculture in itself cannot be the engine of growth for any economy. Well i do not say that it's not important. Its importance in an economy and self sufficiency in it cannot be overstated for any country. But in my views it cannot make any country an economic superpower. To become one a country has to be leading in other sectors such as industry, services n others. But, as we shift to industries and services as they unarguably are the more dignified of the jobs, does that mean that we would have no farmers???

Well..may be what m saying may seem terribly incongruous in the present scenario but that is what i feel that the scene is going to be. If not in a few years then may be 100 years down the line. yes, u get that right. The agriculture AUTOMATED. What i am saying may seem awfully far fetched to a few. But, don't u think that as our civilization develops even more we may have robots ploughing the soil, sowing seeds, cutting the harvest and then packing them to be sold in the market?? And as more and more people get knowledge and erudition don't you think that human race may engage themselves in jobs other than labour??

Like you know, there are more questions to be asked in this world than have been answered. From the universe to the human brain, there is a lot to be known in everything. And insted of labouring in a field a human will have enough "better" jobs to do. Every human has a right to white collor jobs. Doesn't mean that a farmer today would stay a farmer forever. And in the long run (which may be too long but still) i see farming being automated. Atleast the manpower engrossed in that will be reduced to bits. (Good news for jarda)

Just a thought...may seem hypothetical....comments invited...