Agricultural development and inclusive growth in India: A case study of Gujarat

Inclusive growth approach came into being since the launching of the 11th five year plan and is going to stay as a critical aspect determining the sustainability of future agricultural growth in India. Agricultural development is an important component of inclusive growth approach. The broad objective of this paper is to link agriculture development and inclusive growth through farm sector growth driven rural transformation. It has found that agricultural sector growth has increased at a higher rate in Gujarat during 2001–02 to 2010–11 than the India. The growth has been sown higher production of cotton and wheat. It has also influenced some exogenous factors i.e. increased gross cropped and net irrigated area, increase in fertilizer consumption and more use of modern agricultural implements etc. The overall analysis on the growth performance of agriculture and allied activities of Gujarat and India, it seems that Gujarat has facilitated inclusive development in agriculture through the path of livestock and horticulture sector in the view of increasing farm income and farm sector growth.