Infrastructure and Agricultural Development in Haryana--Policy Implications

Contents: Preface. 1. General introduction to agricultural infrastructure. 2. General introduction to the region--Haryana. 3. Disparities in the distribution of agricultural infrastructure in Haryana. 4. Interlinkages and growth in agricultural infrastructure and agricultural productivity. 5. Conclusions and policy implications. Bibliography. Index.

"The present study evaluates the importance of infrastructure in agricultural development in Haryana, the spatial dimensions in its distribution over time and study interlinkages in agricultural facilities available in the state. It is found that agricultural infrastructure is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for development in agriculture, implying the role of some other factors in the process of development. At the same time, it brings out that provision of more agricultural infrastructural facilities leads to an increase in productivity levels in all the districts and delineated productivity regions. It is found that disparities in the distribution of agricultural infrastructural tended to result in inequalities in the agricultural productivity and a decline in disparities in its distribution tended to narrow down inequalities in agricultural productivity among the districts and delineated productivity regions. The study also highlights the fact that disparities of agricultural infrastructural facilities are found to be relatively more acute at the district level than at the level of delineated productivity regions. The study, further, revealed that technological inputs are found to have strong correlation among themselves and with agricultural productivity and cropping intensity, respectively; and most of the infrastructural indicators are also found strongly correlated with the technological inputs. As a policy implication infrastructure, being a necessary condition for development of agricultural sector, has to be strengthened in all the districts and productivity regions in Haryana so that effective and efficient delivery of technological inputs is ensured for better results in agriculture." (jacket)