Economic and political weekly/Economic & political weekly · 1995 · 32 citations · 0 references
Productivity GrowthPrecision AgricultureLand UseEconomic DevelopmentAgricultural EconomicsAgricultural ProductionEconomic GrowthAgricultural GrowthSustainable AgriculturePublic HealthAgricultural ProductivityEconomicsCrop ProductionFavourable WeatherCrop CultivationAgricultureAgricultural HistoryAgricultural SystemSustainable Agricultural IntensificationBusinessIndian AgricultureCrop Intensification
There has been a significant upsurge in the production and productivity growth in Indian agriculture in recent years and it cannot be attributed merely to a favourable weather. On the contrary, it appears that a shift to higher growth path is underway. Afar more important role played by yield improvement in inducing higher growth in output demonstrates that the process of growth has been technologically more dynamic too. Another welcome feature of growth has been its wider dispersal across crops and regions, making it more broad-based in the 1980s.