India: Gujarat: agricultural development for growth and poverty reduction

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Discussion Paper Series Report No, 2Publication details: Washington, D.C. World Bank 2007Description: vii, 93 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1095475
Summary: Gujarat's agricultural sector is one of the most diversified in India. Despite a dry climate with erratic rainfall, the sector has enjoyed substantial growth over the past decade. Following a decade of negative agricultural growth in the 1980s (-0.8 percent per annum) that accompanied a series of droughts, the agricultural sector grew by 3.9 percent per annum in the 1990s, surpassing the all-India average of 3.2 percent. However, since the late 1990s, agricultural growth has again slowed, largely because of droughts. Overall economic growth in Gujarat far outpaced agricultural sector growth. In the 1990s, while population grew by an average of 1.8 per annum, total output grew by 8 percent per annum, giving a per capita GSDP's growth of 6.1 percent per annum. In 2001 per capita GSDP reached Rs 15,747, 34 percent higher than the all-India average of Rs 11,752. This paper contains the following headings: executive summary, introduction, rural income and poverty, agricultural production, water for agriculture, agricultural marketing, and conclusions and policies.
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Gujarat's agricultural sector is one of the most diversified in India. Despite a dry climate with erratic rainfall, the sector has enjoyed substantial growth over the past decade. Following a decade of negative agricultural growth in the 1980s (-0.8 percent per annum) that accompanied a series of droughts, the agricultural sector grew by 3.9 percent per annum in the 1990s, surpassing the all-India average of 3.2 percent. However, since the late 1990s, agricultural growth has again slowed, largely because of droughts. Overall economic growth in Gujarat far outpaced agricultural sector growth. In the 1990s, while population grew by an average of 1.8 per annum, total output grew by 8 percent per annum, giving a per capita GSDP's growth of 6.1 percent per annum. In 2001 per capita GSDP reached Rs 15,747, 34 percent higher than the all-India average of Rs 11,752. This paper contains the following headings: executive summary, introduction, rural income and poverty, agricultural production, water for agriculture, agricultural marketing, and conclusions and policies.

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