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Crop Diversification in Karnataka An Economic Analysis

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Title Crop Diversification in Karnataka An Economic Analysis
 
Creator Saraswati Poudel Acharya
 
Contributor H. Basavaraja
 
Subject Agricultural Economics
 
Description Crop diversification is an important strategy for overall agriculture
development in the country. The study aimed at analyzing the nature and extent of
crop diversification in Karnataka and finding the factors affecting crop diversification.
The necessary secondary data were collected for a period of 26 years from 1982-83 to
2007-08 from the Directorate of Economics and Statistics Bangalore. Growth rate,
Composite Entropy Index and Multiple linear regression analysis were employed to
analyze the nature and extent of crop diversification in Karnataka.
Growth rates estimated for changes in area under different crops showed a
significant positive growth in area under pulses, vegetables and spices and fruits and
nuts while cereals has shown significant negative growth. The growth in area under
oilseeds and commercial crops was negative and insignificant. Similarly, the
production of cereals, pulses vegetables and fruits showed a significant positive
growth rate. The production of oilseeds and commercial crops registered insignificant
positive growth. The productivity of different crop registered significant growth in the
case of cereals, pulses and fruits. Productivity of oilseeds recorded moderately
significant positive growth. The productivity of commercial crop registered
insignificant positive growth and for vegetables the growth in productivity was
insignificant and negative.
The Composite Entropy Indices for different crop groups showed that almost
all the crop groups have higher crop diversification index after post WTO (1995-96 to
2007-08) period as compared to pre WTO (1982-83 to 1994-95) period except for
oilseeds and vegetable crops. There was diversification of commercial crop after
WTO. No single crop group showed higher index in initial years, which in turn,
resulted in more diversification in recent years. The cereals ranked first and pulses
remained second in the overall level of crop diversification during the study period.
The major factors responsible for the changes in crop diversification in the
state were per capita GSDP, proportion of urban population, proportion of area under
HYV of cereals, proportion of gross irrigated area to gross cropped area, rainfall,
average size of holding, market density and fertilizer consumption. The creation of
basic infrastructural facilities is an essential prerequisite for crop diversification and
fostering the process of agricultural development.
 
Date 2016-11-10T15:44:23Z
2016-11-10T15:44:23Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/84932
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher UAS, Dharwad