"6291","10","archive","128",,,"disk0/00/00/62/91","2012-12-10 05:52:11","2012-12-24 10:23:27","2012-12-10 05:52:11","article",,,"show","Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG",,,"","","","","","","","","","",,,,"Reddy","A A","","","","","","","Reddy","A A","","","","",,,,,"","",,,,,"","","ICRISAT(Patancheru)","India","Sources of Agricultural Growth in Andhra Pradesh, India:
Scope for Small Farmer Participation","pub","s2.4","","","public",,,,,"Help received from Dr Pratap Birthal, Principal Scientist (Agricultural Economics) in data analysis and
improving methodology is greatly appreciated, however I am sole responsible person for any errors in the paper. The paper is written under the project Village Dynamics in South Asia (VDSA) project of ICRISAT, Hyderabad.","Andhra Pradesh (AP) is one of the largest states in India, with agriculture providing the major
source of income for about 60 per cent of the population even though it contributes only 19
per cent state GDP. In the last 40 years, annual growth rate of agriculture is 2.88 per cent as
against targetted growth of about 4 per cent per annum. This paper analyses the sources of
crop sub-sector growth in pre-liberalisation period (from 1970-1989) and post-liberalisation
period (from 1990-2009). The growth rate in value of production in pre-liberalisation period
is lower (2.4% per annum) than post-liberalisation period (2.7% per annum) per annum. Even
though contribution of both yield and crop diversification to growth in value of production
is higher, the negative contribution of real prices is the main reason for slower growth in preliberalisation
period. While positive contribution of prices along with yield and diversification
in the post-liberalisation period contributed for higher growth rate. In the post-liberalisation
period, regions are specialising based on their resource endowment (coastal Andhra in paddy,
Telangana in cotton and Rayalaseema in groundnut), even though all the regions show general
tendency of diversification towards high value crops (HVCs) like fruits and vegetables. The
paper highlights that the small farmer’s participation in diversification towards HVCs (HVCs;
fruits, vegetables, spices, cotton and sugarcane) is limited, but they adopted the yield
increasing technology components like high yielding varieties (HYVs), irrigation and cropping
intensity compared to large farmers. As a result gross and net returns per ha are higher among
small farms. This might have positive effect on small farmers (<2.0 ha) who comprise 86 per
cent of the total farm households, and cultivate, on average, half a hectare of land. The paper
also demonstrates that there is positive association between reduction of poverty and area
under HVCs. Agricultural diversification in favour of HVCs that generate larger returns and
are labour-intensive, which are demand driven to be explored for the benefit of small farmers.
In many agricultural development indicators, coastal Andhra is better positioned followed by
Telangana and Rayalaseema.","2011","published",,"The Indian Economic Journal","59","3","Academic Foundation",,"87-108",,,,,,,,,,,"TRUE",,"0019-4662",,,,,,"","http://www.indianeconomicjournal.org/iej/publication-and-circulation.php","http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=%22Sources+of+Agricultural+Growth+in+Andhra+Pradesh%2C+India%3A+Scope+for+Small+Farmer+Participation%22&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5","pub",,"","",,,,,,"",,,,,,,"",,,,,"",,,,,"","",,,,,"","",,,,,