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ISSN 0002-1679 P. Agri. 21-08-2020 Regn.No.:840 450 Other Publications of AGRICULTURALAGRICULTURAL the Directorate SITUATIONSITUATION IN IN INDIA INDIA Agricultural Statistics at a Glance* Since 1948 AUGUST, 2020 State of Indian Agriculture Glimpses of Indian Agriculture FARM SECTOR NEWS AGRO - ECONOMIC RESEARCH GENERAL SURVEY OF AGRICULTURE Assessment of Livestock Land Use Statistics at a Glance* Feed and Fodder in Rajasthan ARTICLES COMMODITY REVIEWS Agricultural Prices in India* Changing Status of Agricultural Foodgrains Regional Disparity in Punjab Commercial Crops Agricultural Wages in India A Study of Growth of Foodgrains TRENDS IN AGRICULTURE Production in Rajasthan Wages & Prices Cost of Cultivation of Principal Crops in India* Farm Harvest Prices of Principal Crops in India* *Copies are available at: The Controller of Publications, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054 Rakmo Press Pvt. Ltd., Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh AGRICULTURAL SITUATION IN INDIA Editorial Board VOL. LXXVII August, 2020 No. 05 Chairman Dr. Srabani Guha CONTENTS PRICES Editor P. C. Bodh FARM SECTOR NEWS 1 Asstt. Economic Adviser Dr. Ramesh Kumar Yadav GENERAL SURVEY OF AGRICULTURE 11 Economic Officer ARTICLES Vinita Changing Status of Agricultural Regional 13 Officials Associated in Preparation of the Disparity in Punjab - Jaspal Singh, Shilpi Kapoor, Publication D. K. Gaur — Sub-Editor Jagdeep Singh, Nirmal Singh And Tanima Dutta. S. K. Kaushal — Tech. Asstt. (Printing) A Study of Growth of Foodgrains Production 21 Uma Rani — Tech. Asstt. (Printing) Sanjay Raj— Tech. Asstt. (Economics) in Rajasthan - Preeti Prasad, Rashmi Bhargava Anupama - Junior Statistical Officer and S.K. Kulshrestha. Sachin Mittal — Tech. Asstt. Shripal Singh— MTS AGRO-ECONOMIC RESEARCH Cover Design By: Assessment of Livestock Feed and Fodder 33 Yogeshwari Tailor— Asstt. Graph in Rajasthan-H. Sharma, S. S. Kalamkar & T. Parihar- Agro-Economic Research Centre, Sardar Publication Division Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, Directorate of Economics Gujarat. and Statistics Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare COMMODITY REVIEWS Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Foodgrains 41 Government of India 102A, F-Wing, Shastri Bhawan, Commercial Crops 45 New Delhi-110 001 Phone: 23382769 STATISTICAL TABLES (Email: [email protected]) WAGES Soft copy of the journal is also available at: eands.dacnet.nic.in/publication.htm 1. Daily Agricultural Wages in Some 48 States- Category-wise. Subscription Inland Foreign 1.1. Daily Agricultural Wages in Some 48 Single Copy : Rs. 40.00 £ 2.9 or $ 4.5 States-Operation-wise. Annual : Rs. 400.00 £ 29 or $ 45 Available from PRICES The Controller of Publications, 2. Wholesale Prices of Certain Important 51 Ministry of Urban Development, Deptt. of Publications, Agricultural Commodities and Animal Publications Complex (Behind Old Secretariat), Husbandry Products at Selected Centres Civil Lines, Delhi-110 054. Phone : 23813761, 23813762, 23813764, 23813765 in India. (Email: [email protected]) CROP PRODUCTION ©Articles Published in the Journal cannot be reproduced in any form without the permission of Economic and Sowing and Harvesting Operations Normally 55 Statistical Adviser. in Progress during September, 2020. For article submission see last page. From Editor’s Desk This issue of ‘Agricultural Situation in India’ is about that the central Punjab lies under more developed zone the Government’s various farmer-centric policy, recent because of the adoption of modern technology in the general agriculture outlook, two incisive academic initial stages of green revolution due to rich ecological research articles, one on changing status of agricultural and natural resource endowment. In contrast, the south- regional disparity in Punjab; and other on a study of western region (Muktsar, Faridkot, Fazilka and Mansa) growth of foodgrains production in Rajasthan and an lies at the lowest level in agricultural development due agro-economic research study report on the assessment to the poor land and water quality of the region. Based of livestock feed and fodder in Rajasthan. on the findings, the author suggested that for the districts with low ADI to increase the production by using new Major farm sector news appearing in this issue are: seeds, machinery and new technology. However, the the Union Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Minister’s districts with high ADI should enhance the use of new appeal to farmers to adopt best agricultural practices for technology that will increase the income of the farmers maximizing crop production during the kharif season; and will make agriculture a profitable business rather promotion of “One district–One Product” approach to than a loss trap. increase value addition, marketing and exports; formation of ten thousand new farmers’s producer organization; In the second article, an attempt has been made to inauguration of new administrative and academic building analyse the changing production trends of foodgrains of IARI, Jharkhand; Union Agriculture & Farmers Welfare crops in Rajasthan in rabi as well as in kharif season and Minister’s stresses on the importance of Krishi Vigyan to calculate growth coefficients of rabi and kharif seasons’ Kendras (KVKs) in agricultural progress; the Cabinet’s cereals and pulses for sixty years (i.e.,from 1956-57 to approval on central sector scheme of financing facility 2015-16).The study is based on the time-series data from under ‘Agriculture Infrastructure Fund’; Shri Narendra the year 1956-57 to 2015-16 collected from Directorate of Singh Tomar’s regular meetings with states through Economics & Statistics, Rajasthan from the issues related Video Conferencing to deliberate upon recent initiatives to statistical abstract and agriculture statistics. Semi-log to boost rural economy; celebration of 92nd foundation day econometrics model has been used to estimate the growth of Indian Council of Agricultural Research; enrollment rate of agricultural production of different crops. The under PMFBY for kharif-2020; inauguration of world study reveals that production of foodgrains has increased class state-of-the-art honey testing lab at Anand, Gujarat; over the time but it is more in case of cereals, particularly initiatives to bring large Bihad area of Gwalior–Chambal for wheat crop, and less in case of pulses. So, the author region under agriculture; encouragement of startups in suggested that the Government should give incentives to the field of agriculture for enhancing income of farmers farmers for crop diversification in which alterntive crops and providing employment opportunities to youth; and may be considered under minimum support price (MSP). operations to control locust in Rajasthan and Gujarat. There is also a need to use the high yield variety (HYV) of seeds for pulses by the farmer, particularly for gram So far as the agricultural scenario is concerned, the and arhar crops in the state. In addition, to improve the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) of foodgrains, pulses, cereals, agriculture crop production, there is a need to increase fruits, wheat and paddy increased by 3.99 percent, 10.10 crop-wise contract farming. percent, 2.72 percent, 2.31 percent, 5.17 percent and 4.48 percent, respectively, in June, 2020 as compared to that in Agro-economic research included in this issue is June, 2019. The 2020 cumulative monsoon season rainfall a report on assessment of livestock feed and fodder in in the country has been 1 percent higher than the long Rajasthan prepared by Agro-Economic Research Centre, period average during 1st June, 2020 to 29th July, 2020. Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, Current live storage in 123 major water reservoirs in the Gujarat. The primary objectives of the report were to country was 69.98 BCM as against 68.26 BCM of normal examine the demand, supply, and a deficit of feed and storage based on the average storage of last 10 years. fodder production in the Rajasthan. To realize these objectives, primary data using sample survey method In academic perspective, in the first article, the and secondary level data of livestock and fodder from authors, interestingly, elaborate the disparity in the published sources were collected. On the basis of findings, agricultural patterns in Punjab and in its various districts the study suggests to increase public investment to during the years 2011-12 and 2016-17 using agricultural develop infrastructures like fodder bank and fodder development index (ADI). The author also identified market; to encourage competent agencies to generate real the regions which have lagged behind in terms of time and time-period data on livestock feed and fodder; agricultural development and as well as tried to probe to work out strategies for raising production of sufficient the causes behind their backwardness. The study is based good quality feed and fodder for efficient utilization of on secondary data on various indicators of agricultural genetic potential of various livestock and sustainable development collected from Directorate of Economics & improvement in productivity; to reduce cost of feed and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, fodder by increasing its productivity with high yielding Statistical Abstract of Punjab 2012 and 2018, and Central fodder varieties; and to promote modern scientific farming Statistical Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme methods suitable in different agro-climatic conditions of Implementation, Government of India.The study revealed the area,