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Acreage allocation decisions of cultivators in a region are based on agro-economic, technological, institutional and social factors. The cropping pattern tends to change in tune with changes in one or all of these factors. Such changes in the cropping pattern may lead to the redistribution of land resources across crops, which ultimately, have a bearing on agricultural growth and income distribution in the region. Hence, adoption of a scientific cropping pattern optimally suited to a region is necessary to augment the growth of agricultural production and productivity. This book provides a...

Tea is one of the important perennial commercial crops. As a popular drink for people around the world, tea demand has been increasing over the years. The increased demand for tea has to be met by increased production. Since the increased production is not possible by continuous area expansion under cultivation, the increased output must come from the productivity expansion per unit of land. Productivity expansion is possible by first identifying several problems hindering it and then framing suitable policy decisions to remove all those problems, specially in major tea growing regions. The...

Credit is one of the important inputs in agricultural production. As an input, credit can influence the level of use of other inputs in crop cultivation. With the adoption of improved farming technologies, the need of regular and sufficient credit has now become more important than earlier days in many agriculturally dominant countries. Improved cultivation techniques demand higher dependence on the purchased inputs such as chemical fertilizers, pesticides, high yielding varieties of seeds etc. Accordingly, a state or region with higher intensity of credit disbursement is likely to have...

Nowadays, the corporate sector plays an important role in the overall economic development even for developing and underdeveloped economies. For example, the corporate sector in India has been witnessing substantial growth specially after 1980s in terms of number of firms and size of paid-up capital. The corporate sector of India has also played a progressive role in building fixed capital, generating employment, discovering new technology, raw-materials and markets, and widely catered the needs of the consumers. This became more prominent after 1991 when the country adopted economic...