Levels of Agricultural Development in Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

In this paper, an analysis of regional disparities of various attributes of agricultural development such as quality of agricultural land, techno-biological inputs in agriculture, agricultural institutions and services and agricultural production have been attempted. The entire research work is based on secondary sources of data, collected from Census of India publications 2001. The district has been taken as a smallest unit of the study. Levels of agricultural development for each district were computed by applying Composite Z-score technique. Results of the analysis mark out sufficient variation in districts/regions of the state. It is observed that Uttar Pradesh, has though achieved considerable levels of agricultural development, yet it is inflicted by striking regional disparities in agricultural development.  Therefore, it is essential to expose vertical as well as horizontal disparities through an in depth regional analysis so that overall levels of agricultural development may be obtained.