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Sources of Agricultural Growth in Andhra Pradesh, India: Scope for Small Farmer Participation

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Title Sources of Agricultural Growth in Andhra Pradesh, India:
Scope for Small Farmer Participation
 
Creator Reddy, A A
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Andhra Pradesh (AP) is one of the largest states in India, with agriculture providing the major
source of income for about 60 per cent of the population even though it contributes only 19
per cent state GDP. In the last 40 years, annual growth rate of agriculture is 2.88 per cent as
against targetted growth of about 4 per cent per annum. This paper analyses the sources of
crop sub-sector growth in pre-liberalisation period (from 1970-1989) and post-liberalisation
period (from 1990-2009). The growth rate in value of production in pre-liberalisation period
is lower (2.4% per annum) than post-liberalisation period (2.7% per annum) per annum. Even
though contribution of both yield and crop diversification to growth in value of production
is higher, the negative contribution of real prices is the main reason for slower growth in preliberalisation
period. While positive contribution of prices along with yield and diversification
in the post-liberalisation period contributed for higher growth rate. In the post-liberalisation
period, regions are specialising based on their resource endowment (coastal Andhra in paddy,
Telangana in cotton and Rayalaseema in groundnut), even though all the regions show general
tendency of diversification towards high value crops (HVCs) like fruits and vegetables. The
paper highlights that the small farmer’s participation in diversification towards HVCs (HVCs;
fruits, vegetables, spices, cotton and sugarcane) is limited, but they adopted the yield
increasing technology components like high yielding varieties (HYVs), irrigation and cropping
intensity compared to large farmers. As a result gross and net returns per ha are higher among
small farms. This might have positive effect on small farmers (
 
Publisher Academic Foundation
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
application/pdf
 
Language en
en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6291/1/IEJ_59_3_87-108_2011.pdf
http://oar.icrisat.org/6291/7/Sources_of_Agricultural_Growth_AAR.pdf
Reddy, A A (2011) Sources of Agricultural Growth in Andhra Pradesh, India: Scope for Small Farmer Participation. The Indian Economic Journal, 59 (3). pp. 87-108. ISSN 0019-4662