• Prasant Kumar Behera
• Brundaban Sahu
• Subhasmita Das

As agriculture is considered to be the vital cog in the wheel of Indian economy, economic prosperity of the country depends upon long term sustainable development of agriculture with minimisation of disparities among the states. The disparities in agriculture among the different regions of India are result of various factors connected with each other. The present paper analyses the objective of regional disparities in agricultural development in different states of India on a number of indicators like percentage of agricultural workers, percentage of net sown area, inputs use, percentage of net irrigated area, cropping intensity, total agricultural productions and productivity, percentage of agriculture contribution to state GDP etc. Keeping the objective in view, the data for analysing the study have been collected from various secondary sources like Reserve Bank of India, NSSO, Central Statistics Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, GoI, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, GoI, Department of Agricultural Research and Education, GoI, Registrar General of India, Census of India, GoI, and Indian Economic Survey. The relative variations, ranks and percentage growth in various aspects of agricultural development of different states have been computed during the period under consideration. Finding of the study shows existence of high inter-state disparities in agricultural development in the country over the years. The disparities in agricultural development among the different states emanate from numerous factors including credit-availability, monsoon, technology, topographical features, historical, institutional, natural and socio-economic factors. The study suggests the policy makers to increase the government expenditure in agricultural infrastructure including irrigation, technology, crop varieties and credit facilities, and to focus on the underdeveloped regions for removing the disparities and achieving inclusive and sustainable agricultural development in the country.

Agriculture, Regional Disparity, Productivity, Technology, Percentage Growth

" STATE LEVEL INEQUALITIES IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.41-54, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006330.pdf

" STATE LEVEL INEQUALITIES IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp41-54, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006330.pdf