Causes of Low Agricultural Productivity and Government measures to improve its productivity

A farmer in Vidarbha and a farmer in Punjab can own the same size plot and end the season with wildly different harvests. The land is not the difference; the water, the credit, the seed and the size of the holding are. This topic asks you to name exactly what separates a productive farm from an unproductive one, and what a government can realistically do to close that gap.

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Agricultural productivity is output per unit of land (or per worker), and India's low productivity is explained by a cluster of structural, technical and institutional causes, which successive governments have tried to address through irrigation, credit, technology, land reform and price support.

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