 The rise in the savings rate and the rate of investment was up to 33.7 percent and 36.5 percent, respectively, in the year 2009–2010.According to the survey, the growth in the agricultural sector in the initial four years of the 11th year plan (2007–2012) was around 2.87 percent.In the year 2009–2010 the production of the food grains hiked to 232.1 billion tons from 218.1 billion tons.