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- Indian Streams Research Journal
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Abstract (Original Language):
West Bengal witnessed impressive agricultural growth rates during the decade of the eighties,
primarily due to the institutional and technological changes. The high growth rates could however, not be sustained
in the following decade primarily due to area saturation and declining yield growth rates. Owing to this
deceleration and the policy of globalization, the state has been following the policy of crop diversification in favour
of high value cash crops since the mid nineties. In this context, horticultural crops occupy an important position in
terms of providing livelihood options, mitigating to some extent the excess demand for cereals and contributing to
food and nutritional security. However, the performance of the horticultural sector is not very satisfactory as
productivity is low, even though area under them has increased. The present study taking the district as the smallest
unit, would like to analyse the growth rates of two important horticultural crops i.e. fruits and vegetables in terms of
area, production and yield, and also examine how much of the change in output is attributed to area change and
yield change.
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