Growth Performance of Agriculture in The Tribal Dominated Dungarpur District of Rajasthan

By : Devendra Singh Chouhan

Page No: 89-99

Abstract
The agriculture sector of the tribal dominated district of Dungarpur is passing through a dynamic phase in the recent era of development. It provides 77% of employment opportunities for the working population of the district. The present paper extensively evaluates the performance and progress of the district agriculture since 1981-82. Besides comparing facts and figures, we also examined the sources of agricultural growth and disparity of Dungarpur district. The Paper also finds out determinates of agriculture production by using regression and verifies the result of decomposition of agricultural growth. This paper covered the period during 1981-82, 1991-92, 2001-02 and 2011-12. In this paper, changes in the whole scenario of district agriculture over the period of time and sources of agricultural growth by cropping pattern, output growth, input pattern, cropping intensity, variation of agriculture growth and factors affecting agriculture development have been discussed.

Author :
Devendra Singh Chouhan : Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, M.L.S. University, Udaipur, Rajasthan.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2018.38.01.7