1Assistant Professor, Department Of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email id: makhan2008@rediffmail.com
2Senior Research Fellow, Department Of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email id: islam.pasarul@gmail.com
Online published on 10 May, 2019.
Infrastructure is the catalyst in diversifying cropping pattern that helps to feed millions of people. The government is the primary facilitator of the required agricultural infrastructure such as irrigation, transport, market, cold storage, seed and pesticide sale centre, load and purchase society, and electrification to farmers in India. In the paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the changing scenario of rural infrastructure and crop diversification and to establish the relationship between them for the period 2000–01 and 2014–15. In order to achieve aims of the study, we have used secondary sources of data and adopted suitable methods like correlation, crop diversification index (Gibbs and Martin) and Vis-à-Vis. Result of the analysis indicates that pattern of crop diversification is most determines by infrastructure services. The study is come out with the suggestion that attention must be paid to increase the investment by proving loan, develop transportation system and marketing facilities in the district
Agriculture, Infrastructure, Crop Diversification, Vis-À-Vis, Correlations
