Journal of Agricultural Development and Policy

The present empirical study deals with the measurement of growth of the primary sector in Himachal Pradesh. For this purpose, we have compiled information on gross state domestic product for the primary sector (at constant prices) at aggregated and disaggregated levels, available for the period from 1980-81 to 2015-16. For measuring the growth of primary sector and its sub-sectors, we made use of alternative-growth rates, to justify the equation of best fit into eleven different types of growth rates i.e. simple linear (SLR); parabolic (PRB); cubic (CUB); log-linear (LLN); log-parabolic (LPB); log-cubic (LCB); geometric (GEO); hyperbolic (HYP); modified exponential (MEX); gompertz (GOM) and logistic (LGS), were tested-for state gross domestic product (SGDP) for primary sector at aggregated/disaggregated level. From-resultswe concluded that income has exhibited a U shaped growth pattern for fishing (FSNG), during-the entire study span. The inverted U shaped growth patterns observed for forestry and logging (FRLG), primary sector (PRMR). During the entire study period the mining and quarrying (MNQR), displayed an-increasing trend in relative share, while the relative share of agriculture and animal husbandry (AGRL), forestry and logging (FRLG), and fishing (FSNG), sub-sector displayed a declining trend.