1Policy Economics and Social Science Discipline, The WorldFish Center, Penang, Malaysia. E-mail: Praduman.kumar@cgiar.org
2Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, Core 6A, 4th Floor, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi 110003. E-mail: surabhi@icrier.res.in
The sustainability issue of the crop productivity is fast emerging. The post-Green Revolution phase is characterized by high input-use and decelerating total factor productivity growth (TFPG). The agricultural productivity attained during the 1980s has not been sustained during the 1990s and has posed a challenge for the researchers to shift the production function upward by improving the technology index. It calls for an examination of issues related to the trends in the agricultural productivity, particularly with reference to individual crops grown in the major states of India. Temporal and spatial variations of TFPG for major crops of India have also been examined.
