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The agriculture sector single-handedly held the baton of India’s economy amid the coronavirus pandemic even so, it had lost traction in terms of the workforce prior to the lockdown was imposed. The agriculture sector employed 5.3 per cent of total urban workers through January-March 2019, which fell to 5.1 per cent in a year, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI).