Regional disparity in agricultural development: A block level analysis for Kongu uplands, Tamilnadu, India

H R Jasim; K Kumaraswamy

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ga.v7i1.4

Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-22

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Regional disparity in agricultural development: A block level analysis for Kongu uplands, Tamilnadu, India

H R Jasim¹, K Kumaraswamy¹

¹Department of Geography, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024

Received Date:24 December 2017, Accepted Date:13 March 2018

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The progress of agriculture is precondition for overall development of Indian economy. It pays meaningfully to the export incomes and affects the performance of other divisions of the economy through forward and backward links. The current paper investigates block and regional level disparity in agriculture development in Kongu Uplands on several of agricultural variables. It uses UNDP methodology to standardize various indicators for agricultural achievement in the study area. A composite index has been constructed at the block level and also regional level. The relative variations and changes in ranks of various blocks have been calculated. The agricultural development in the Kongu Upland is moderate with index value of 0.503. The outcomes inspired more determined effort on the side of the policy-makers is wanted if the development policy has to be made truly inclusive.

Keywords

Agricultural development, Kongu uplands, UNDP, composite index, policy makers

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