Agriculture provides the bulk of wage goods required by non-agriculture sectors and most of the raw materials for the industries sector. India is a largely agrarian economy - with 52.1% of the population estimated to be directly or indirectly employed in agriculture and allied sectors in 2009–10.|Economic Survey|2010 The combined efforts of the Central Government, State Governments, and the farming community have succeeded in achieving record production of 244.78 million tonnes of foodgrains during 2010–11. This record production has been achieved through effective transfer of newly developed crop production technologies to farmers under various crop development schemes, such as the MMP, which is run under the direction of the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. Other causes behind record production include remunerative prices for various crops through enhanced minimum support prices.