At a summit of international investors, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said "the rain gods have not been as kind" to this government as they were to earlier ones. He said though a weak agriculture sector posed a challenge to the economy, the government was committed to improving its performance, adding that better results from other areas of the economy could still ensure an overall improvement in growth. "We have 55 per cent of our population dependent on agriculture, and the rain gods have not been as kind to this government in the last two years as they were to the earlier governments. Therefore, the agriculture growth was flat last fiscal and this," Jaitley said while talking about the hurdles to India's growth.
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