Agricultural Economics Research Review

UGC CARE (Group 1)
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 22
  • Issue: 1

Impact of Infrastructure and Technology on Agricultural Productivity in Uttar Pradesh

  • Author:
  • Prabha , Kishor Goswami, Bani Chatterjee
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 61 to 70

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - 721 302, West Bengal.

*Author for correspondence: E-mail: ptarunk@gmail.com

Note: The CMIE, Mumbai, after assessing the importance and contribution of seven major economic as well as social infrastructural factors has worked out their individual weighted values as: (a) Transport-26, (b) Energy-24, (c) Irrigation-20, (d) Banking-12, (e) Communication-6, (f) Education-6, and (g) Health-6. Further, CMIE has chosen the following 11 development indicators relating to these seven major infrastructures to form the Composite Development Index (CDI): (i) surfaced roads per 100 sq km area, (ii) un-surfaced roads per 100 sq km area, (iii) railway route length per 100 sq km area, (iv) percentage of villages electrified, (v) gross cropped area (irrigated), (vi) bank branches per lakh population, (vii) post offices per lakh population, (viii) telephone lines per 100 persons, (ix) primary schools per lakh population, (x) primary health centres per lakh population, and (xi) hospital beds per lakh population.

Abstract

The trends of composite and individual infrastructural indicators, fertilizer and HYVs have been examined and their impacts on agricultural productivity in Uttar Pradesh have been reported. The trend of composite infrastructure index has shown sharp fluctuations, while electrified villages and rural roads have indicated a rising trend. The agricultural productivity and fertilizer have shown increasing trend with marginal fluctuations, while HYVs have illustrated an increasing trend at a decreasing rate. The impact of composite infrastructure index, fertilizer and HYVs on agricultural productivity has been found positive and significant. Analysis of the impact of individual infrastructural indicators has revealed that the electrified villages along with fertilizer and HYVs have positive and significant impact, while rural roads have an insignificant impact.