FORMATION OF AN INDEX FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN DISTRICTS OF KARNATAKA
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2001
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, DHARWAD
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"Agriculture is not only an important sector of an economy rather it
also feeds other sectors oi the economy. Agriculture development
determines the rate of growth of an economy. The extent of agricultural
development becomes even more important in the developing economy
because of the dominance of the agricultural sector in such economies.
The development of agriculture and the factors affecting regional disparity
with respect to agricultural development was studied in detail using nine
important agricultural development indicators. The study pertained to
Kamataka state and its component districts. The secondary data were
collected for a period of 6 years depending on the availability of the data
starting from 1992-93 to 1997-98, pertaining to nine important
agricultural development indicators like per cent net irrigated, per cent
net area sown, productivity, per cent net area under high yielding
varieties, number of irrigation pumpsets, fertilizer consumption,
sericulture production, regulated markets and rainfall.
The Mahalanobis D^ analysis (distance statistic) was employed to
know the extent of regional disparity, factors affecting regional disparity
and to classify the districts based on agricultural development. The
results revealed that districts were highly despair with respect to
agricultural development and the per cent net irrigated area, number of
regulated markets and sericulture production were the major factors
affecting regional disparity followed by number of irrigation pumpsets,
productivity of importance food grains, rainfall, per cent area under high
yielding varieties, per cent net area sown and fertilizer consumption. All
the 20 districts were grouped into ten clusters and the ten clusters were
categorised into three groups as highly developed, moderately developed
and low developed using the agricultural development index formed. In
highly developed group five districts were included like Bangalore (R),
Kolar, Shimoga, Bangalore and Dakshina Kannada, in moderately
developed group 12 districts were included like Mandya, Mysore,
Chitradurga, Hassan, Bellary, Raichur, Tumkur, Chickmangalore,
Gulbarga, Uttar Kannada, Belgaum and Kodagu and in low developed
group remaining 3 districts were included like Bijapur, Bidar and
Dharwad. With this optimistic scenario, priority should be given to
improve major development indicators and there is need to undertake
developmental measures in low developed and other moderately developed
districts to reduce regional disparity in the state."
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