Slow growth in farm productivity remains a concern: Suresh Pal

The place has, over the final 10 years, achieved sizeable advancement in agriculture productivity, but the advancement has been driven by non-crop sectors such as aquaculture, mentioned Suresh Pal, eminent agriculture economist and Director of ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Plan Exploration (NIAP).

He was addressing the BusinessLine Agri Summit on farm productivity listed here on Friday.

He mentioned advancement in agriculture productivity has been 3 for every cent in the final two a long time and 5 for every cent just before that. And this advancement has appear from States which ended up ordinarily weak in agriculture.

In Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh, the advancement in crop, livestock and fisheries has been six for every cent, considerably over the national advancement, and not seen in the Green Revolution-backed States such as Punjab and Haryana.

However, Pal also expressed problem over the sluggish advancement in agriculture productivity in Uttar Pradesh, which has fantastic irrigation facilities and fertile land.

Experiments have shown there has been a convergence of financial advancement and agricultural productivity.

The seed usage has also seen a sizeable hike, supported by hybrid seed engineering. Labour productivity driving on improved engineering has also contributed to the advancement quantities, he extra.