Rice is also a wage commodity for workers in the cash crop or non-agricultural sectors.

The non-agricultural private sector was nearly eliminated.

By this time about 18% of the population lived in non-rural areas, although only about 7.5% were employed in the non-agricultural sector.

According to The World Bank, 42% of people employed in the non-agricultural sector were women.

This is largely because of the rapid economic growth in services, industrial output, and non-agricultural sectors in India between 2000 to 2010.

The expanding non-agricultural sector itself provided farmers with new opportunities and incentives.

In the non-agricultural sector, the growth rate in Bihar was 6.62% against 6.61% for India as a whole during the 1980s.

Despite Dean's significant damage, it did not have severe effects on infrastructure, and the non-agricultural sectors of most affected nations recovered quickly.

We also succeeded in arriving at good wording with regard to the extension of the scope to the non-agricultural sector.

We have agreed that the scope of application has to be extended to the non-agricultural sector.