Singh, S.P.Simerdeep Kaur2019-06-102019-06-102004-07http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810107877Agriculture sector assumes a very high social and economic significance for the Indian economy. Indian agriculture has witnessed several transformations. Due to liberalization of economy, Indian farmers face the challenge to sustain themselves in new international market conditions. Though post WTO developments have brought many threats to the Indian agriculture, yet it has also created rewarding opportunities. In order to study, the changes in agriculture in such a scenario to identify promising crop rotations followed and constraints faced by the farmers of the Udham Singh Nagar district, a better endowed region, the present study was conducted with the objectives, (i) to study the dynamics of area, production and productivity of different crops, (ii) to work out the economics of major crop rotations and (iii) to identify the constraints faced by the farmers in different crop rotations. The study was based on primary as well as secondary data. Primary data was collected from the a sample of 45 farmers in Rudrapur block of the district. The secondary data for area, production an productivity was procured for years 1992-92 to 1999-2000. The results of the study reveal that area under most of the crops had decreased during the study period while it increased in pea and sunflower only. Thus large part of the area forgone by crops had been shifted to non agricultural activities. The production of most of the crops had decreased. The productivity increased significantly in barley, wheat, masoor and sugarcane. The most profitable crop rotation on small and medium farms was paddy-pea-sugarcane-ratoon-wheat (Rs. 5673 and Rs. 7930, respectively) and on large farms was paddy-pea-summer rice (Rs. 22,377). Various constraints were identified by the farmers relating to technological, institutional, infrastructural and socio-economic fields. The constraint faced by the farmers in sugarcane based rotations was the problem of late payment of the produce. The findings of the study are expected to be helpful in designing appropriate strategies for promoting profit generating crop rotations and identifying important intervention programmes so that the Udham Singh Nagar district continues to add substantially to the economy of the Uttaranchal State.ennullThesis