Disparities in Agricultural Development of Haryana: A Case of Convergence or Divergence

Agriculture is the most prominent sector of Indian economy, the pace of economic growth and well being of general masses are still significantly influenced by the pace of agricultural development. But, like other sectors of Indian economy agricultural development is also marred by huge regional disparities. Disparities in agriculture are not only present in between states but disparities are also a matter of serious concern with in state. Haryana which is considered as ‘Super-Power’ in terms of agricultural development is also not an exception of above mentioned trends. Present study attempts to reveals the present scenario of agricultural development in Haryana; while attempting to study the trends of regional disparities in one of most agriculturally developed state of India in selected time periods, study also test the applicability of certain developmental hypotheses in the case of agricultural development of Haryana. This paper has been divided into three different but cohesive sections. Section I deals with the issues and literature related to regional disparities. Section II focuses on core characteristics of study-area and methodology of the present study. And the last section briefly analyse the levels of agricultural development of Haryana over three specific time periods (i.e. 1990–92, 2000–2002 and 2007–09) by employing deprivation index.