STAGNANCY IN 

AGRICULTURE 
PRODUCTIVITY IN 
INDIA
 Contents
• Introduction
• Agricultural productivity
• Reasons for low productivity
• Government schemes
• Other measures
• Credits
 Introduction
• Shifting from agriculture to service
• Agriculture contributes 14.7% to GDP
in 2009-2010
• Labour force involved in agriculture is
52%.
• Agriculture sector recorded the
lowest growth in five yrs., at 0.2%
in 2009-10 due to widespread
drought.
• In previous fiscal it had grown by
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• The productivity of food grains has
remained stagnant in the last
decade growing at a CAGR of just
about one per cent in the last
decade (FY 2001 to FY 2010)
compared to a growth of 2.4 per
cent in the previous decade (FY
1991-2000).
Reasons for low productivity
•S m a llla n d h o ld in g s
S. No. Category Size of No. of % Total area % Average
Holdings ( holdings operated area
h.a.) (million) (million h.a.) operated per
holding (h.a.)

1 Marginal 0-1.0 75.41 62.3 29.81 18.7 0.40

2 Small 1.0-2.0 22.70 19.0 32.14 20.2 1.42
3 Semi- 2.0-4.0 14.02 11.8 38.19 24.0 2.72
medium

4 Medium 4.0-10.0 6.58 5.5 38.22 24.0 5.81

5 Large 10 and above 1.23 1.0 21.07 13.2 17.12

Total 119.23 100.0 159.44 100.0 1.33

• Dependence on monsoon
q Inadequate irrigation facilities
q Decrease in water table
q Poor water management
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• Decrease in soil fertility

q Excessive use of pesticides
q Diversion of agricultural land to industrial
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• Technological factors
q Outdated techniques
q No training provided
q Distribution of technology is poor
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• Inadequate non-farm services

q Marketing system is defective and costly.
q Modern warehousing is inadequate and
indigenous.
q Modern credit facilities are still poorly
developed for the farmers.
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• Discouraging rural climate
q The farmers of India generally are poor,
ignorant, superstitious, conservative, and
illiterate and bound by outmoded customs .
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q Superstition and belief in fact are the curses,

which keep the farmers fully satisfied with
their primitive system of cultivation.
 Government schemes
• Macro management (2000-2001)
• National food security mission (2007-
2008)
• Integrated scheme of oil seeds, pulses,
oil palm and maize
• National rainfed area authority
• Drought management (2009-10)
• National horticulture
• management (2005-06)
• Micro irrigation (Jan 2006)
• National bamboo mission (2006-07)
 Measures
• Co operative society
• Rain water harvesting
• Rural infrastructure
• Nutrient based subsidy
• Organic farming
• Training centers
• Public private partnership
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 Credits

SHWETA (09101014)
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POOJA (09101010)
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