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...