Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur.
The agriculturally prosperous districts of Rajasthan have high-level fann power supply, especially through mechanical sources of energy and they have diversified agriculture with high value crops. The combined availability of animal and mechanical power in the southern tribal districts may cause diseconomy to the farmers due to sub-optimal use of these resources. The declining share of fann power supply through human workforce in the state is not due to large-scale shift of workforce from agriculture to non-agriculture sector, but due to the rapidly increasing rate of mechanization in the state. The consistently declining animal power supply in all districts except Banswara, Bikaner, Dungarpur, Jaisalmer, Sirohi and Udaipur in the event of rapidly increasing mechanical sources of fann power is on the expected line. In the absence of fann-energy policy, realizing the desired return from agriculture sector is a major challenge for the state.
