Diversification in Agricultural Production for Different States of India during 1971-72 to 2009-10

Abstract

The analysis suggests that government irrigation facilities must be extended and proper incentives must be given to the private sector in order to build infrastructure like private irrigation. All these policies will help to boost up the extent of diversification towards high value crops is being considered as a way to increase the contribution of non-rice crops to output ratio to attain higher agricultural growth rates in the future. Besides enhancing growth, it is felt that diversification will also be able to contribute towards a higher nutrition level, poverty alleviation, employment generation, and sustainable natural resources management. Availability of resources such as land, water, labour, and sunlight are critical for crop diversification schemes.