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| JK shows 5.06% negative growth in agriculture sector in last 3 years | | Production 20.65 Lac MT against requirement of 25 lac MT in 2013-14 | | Arun Singh
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 24: Even as Agriculture Sector is the main source of generating employment in rural pockets of the state, the negative growth in agriculture and allied activities has become an impediment for overall development of farming.
As per Economic Survey Report 2014-15 which was tabled in ongoing budget session, the growth in agriculture and allied activities for 3 years has shown negative growth viz, -0.47% (2009-10), -1.44% (2012-13) and -5.06% only (2014-15 advance estimates) at constant (2004-05) prices.
Economic Survey further reveals that despite the fact that more than 70% population of Jammu and Kashmir people depend on rural employment for a living but one of the important weaknesses of J&K's agriculture lies in having more or less stagnant yields that are much lower than the neighboring states. Yield rate of food grains for 2012-13 was 1614 kg/ha as compared to 4258 kg/ha for Punjab, 3698 kg/ha for Haryana and 2125 Kg/Ha at all India level. As a result of low yield rate, the farmers are not remunerated adequately.
It attributed the low seed replacement ratio which is very in the state to the declining yield as state is still using those varieties which were developed 30 years ago affecting yield parameters adversely.
Report further divulged that low profitability in agriculture has been also attributed to lack of planning and management. In the absence of an integrated approach for tackling multidimensional problems, sectoral development activities do not deliver expected results. Apart from integration of various sectors, many of these projects also lack proper planning and resource mobilization.
It reads that basic infrastructure like roads and communication regarded as very crucial for sustaining growth of agriculture sector are woefully poor. Besides marketing facilities are also inadequate resulting in low productivity, not benefitting the efforts of the farmers properly. World Bank study (1997) estimated that 15% of the agricultural produce is lost between farm gate and the consumer because of poor roads and inappropriate storage facilities alone, adversely influencing the income of the farmers.
An estimation made by the Directorate of Agriculture Jammu, food grain requirement for the State works out to 25 lac MT per annum as against the tentative production of about 20.65 Lac MT during 2013-14.. Therefore the State faces a deficiency of 4.35 Lac MT of food grains which is provided by the CAPD through the rationing system. During the year 2014-15 food production got reduced to 17.42 lac MT due to devastating floods in the State. |
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