Agricultural Productivity Indices of Major Food Crops in Jammu Province, UT of Jammu and Kashmir, India

By : Tajinder Kour , Sarvjeet Singh , Rakesh Jasrotia ,

Page No: 318-330

Abstract
Agriculture is the main source of livelihood of the people and it contributes a major share to the economy of the state. Agricultural development is an integral part of rural development. Hence, for Agricultural development, one should proceed to interpret the regional imbalances in the levels of agricultural productivity or performance per unit area of different crops. Agricultural productivity refers to the output produced by a given level of input(s) in the agricultural sector of a given economy. More formally, it can be defined as “the ratio of the value of total farm outputs to the value of total inputs used in farm production”. The present study is an attempt to determine the agricultural productivity of Jammu Province. For analyzing agricultural productivity, ten districts of Jammu Province have been taken as the unit of study. The productivity indices of major food crops viz. Rice, Maize, and Wheat were considered for each district and were computed.

Authors :
Tajinder Kour : Post-Doc Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Jammu, India
Sarvjeet Singh : Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Govt. Degree College, Doda, Jammu, India.
Rakesh Jasrotia : Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Maulana Azad Memorial College, Jammu, India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2023.43.02.5