IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Pattern Of Development Of Agriculture In The North-Eastern Region Of India

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Mridusmita Patowary, Saurish Bhattacharjee

Abstract

The growing inequities in agriculture are one of the main issues for balanced development, especially in those States whose economies are directly or indirectly based on agricultural activity. In comparison to the other regions of India, the North Eastern Region continues to lag behind in the agricultural sector. It is vital to ascertain whether there is any imbalance between the several States in the North Eastern Region in order to analyse the genuine image of the agricultural backwardness of the region. Thus, using the Wroclaw Taxonomic Technique and the best combinations of various agricultural development indicators, the current study evaluates the differences in the level of agricultural development across the States of India's North Eastern Region. In order to determine whether there has been a drop or increase in the disparities in agricultural development over time, state-level data for the two time periods 2004-05 and 2016-17 are taken into account. The States are divided into four groups based on a built development index: highly developed, medium-level developed, developing, and poorly developed. In this study, it was discovered that whereas no North Eastern State fell into the low developed category in the year 2004–2005, Sikkim was discovered to be the sole State in the category in the following year, 2016–17. In order to ensure uniform development across the region, model States for the less developed States have been established, and potential targets for the different indicators have been estimated.

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