Gujarat's agricultural growth sluggish in 11th Plan: Report

[Bhai Zakir]

Gujarat's agricultural growth sluggish in 11th Plan: Report

AHMEDABAD: The agriculture growth rate in Gujarat in the 11th plan, which is between 2007-08 and 2011-12, has just remained 4.9% and the state was ranked eighth in the overall ranking.

States like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are ahead of Gujarat when it comes to agriculture production.

According to a report by the agriculture department central Gujarat, during the 11th Plan 2007-08 to 2011-12, the growth performance of agriculture in Madhya Pradesh (7.6%), Chhatisgarh (7.6%), Rajasthan (7.4%), Jharkhand (6.0%) and Karnataka (5.6%) and Gujarat (4.9 per cent) was much higher than that of Punjab (1.6%), Maharashtra (2.0%), Tamil Nadu (2.2%), West Bengal (2.8%), Uttar Pradesh (3.3%) and Haryana (3.3%). The repot states that 6.59 million tonnes (about 5.02%) decline in kharif production has been caused by the late onset of monsoon and deficient rainfall in several states including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

While some increase in the productivity of pulses has been noticed in Gujarat, says the report. Productivity of pulses has increased from 625 kg per hectare in 2007-08 to 699 kg per hectare in 2011-12 in the state.

The report says the highest yield in Oilseed cultivation in 2011-12 was recorded by Tamil Nadu (2,479 kg/ha) followed by Gujarat (1,608 kg/ha) and Haryana (1,394 kg/ha).

The report says that India is the second largest cotton producer, consumer and exporter in the world. Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are the major cotton producing states. During 2011-12 a record area of 12.18 lakh hectare was sown with cotton. Major increase in the cotton area was noticed in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Also several projects were taken up in the year 2012-13 for increasing productivity. While Jharkhand chose to increase cropping intensity by creating water conservation structures. West Bengal accounts for 15% of vegetable production.

Gujarat's agricultural growth sluggish in 11th Plan: Report - The Times of India

While Gujarat agricultural growth remain stuck at 4.9% despite the Sardar sarovar dam and the low base.


But what is amusing is the fact that the Modi says agricultural growth in Gujarat is 10% for last decade

Gujarat's agricultural growth for last 5 years = 4.9% but Modi says its 10%

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

But what is amusing is the fact that the Modi says agricultural growth in Gujarat is 10% for last decade

Gujarat's agricultural growth for last 5 years = 4.9% but Modi says its 10%

I think Modi was talking about the "overall" growth rate, of which agriculture contributes the least out of the three sectors (agriculture/industry/services).

And according to The Economist, Gujarat did indeed have 10%+ average growth rate over the past decade. Gujarat was the only major Indian province to have done so.

India in figures - an interactive guide | The Economist

 

[Bhai Zakir]

I think Modi was talking about the "overall" growth rate, of which agriculture contributes the least out of the three sectors (agriculture/industry/services).

And according to The Economist, Gujarat did indeed have 10%+ average growth rate over the past decade. Gujarat was the only major Indian province to have done so.

India in figures - an interactive guide | The Economist

A slap of fact, straight from the official website of Narendar Modi :

It says:


"At a time when the nation’s agriculture is growing at 3%, Gujarat’s agriculture growth rate is at 11%."

At a time when the nation’s agriculture is growing at 3%, Gujarat’s agriculture growth rate is at 11%. How successful do you think have initiatives such as the Krishi Mahotsavs been in transforming Gujarat’s agrarian landscape? | Home | www.narendramodi.in

1.) I don't talk i have proven that its a official statement of Modi and its all fake and lie.

2.) Its not about some noodle recipe i know china want Modi because it will harm India but you should not jump to the matter in which ur knowledeg is "Zero"

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

2.) Its not about some noodle recipe i know china want Modi because it will harm India but you should not jump to the matter in which ur knowledeg is "Zero"

Noodle recipe?

It only took you one post before resorting to racism, well done.

And for your information, I want Congress to win, because their super-socialist schemes will destroy India's economic competitiveness, and forever prevent India from ever becoming competition for us.

Congress serves the interests of India's enemies. So you are doing a good job in promoting them on our behalf.

So thanks for that.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

Noodle recipe?

It only took you one post before resorting to racism, well done.

And for your information, I want Congress to win, because their super-socialist schemes will destroy India's economic competitiveness, and forever prevent India from ever becoming competition for us.

Congress serves the interests of India's enemies. So you are doing a good job in promoting them on our behalf.

So thanks for that.

I won't vote modi for sure, but I'll make it a point to pitch for you as an honorary voter. I guess whatever tally he gets, we'll declare it as +1 on PDF counting your vote.

 

[Manvantaratruti]

Here is an article by the Economist Brother of CONgress leader Mani Shankar Aiyer (...of Modi can put up tea stall fame)

Agriculture: Secret of Modi’s success « Swaminomics

However, an excellent new study suggests that the secret of Modi’s success lay in agriculture, an area completely neglected by political analysts. Ashok Gulati, Tushaar Shah and Ganga Sreedhar have written an IFPRI paper, ‘Agricultural Performance in Gujarat Since 2000’, which highlights something few people know — that Gujarat’s agricultural performance is by far the best in India.

Between 2000-01 and 2007-08 agricultural value added grew at a phenomenal 9.6% per year (despite a major drought in 2002). This is more than double India’s agricultural growth rate, and much faster than Punjab’s farm growth in the green revolution heyday. Indeed, 9.6% agricultural growth is among the fastest rates recorded anywhere in the world. That drives home the magnitude of Gujarat’s performance.

Since the bulk of Gujarat’s population is still rural, this mega-boom in agriculture must have created millions of satisfied voters. Hence it must have played a major role in Modi’s victory. Yet I did not see a single media analyst mention it.

Gujarat is drought prone, with 70% of its area classified as semi-arid and arid. Although journalists focus on the Sardar Sarovar Project, its canal network is hopelessly incomplete, and currently irrigates only 0.1 million hectares. No less than 82% of irrigation in the state comes from tubewells, which have depleted groundwater. By the mid-1990s, groundwater extraction exceeded natural recharge in 31 talukas, and 90% of the safe extraction yield in another 12 talukas.

.....The IFPRI study says that 10,700 check dams were built up to 2000, and helped drought-proof 32,000 hectares. That sounds a lot. But subsequently, under Modi, Gujarat has built ten times as many check dams! He could well say ‘chak de, check dam’. These have played a big role in the agricultural growth of Saurashtra and Kutch (aided, it must be said, by bountiful monsoons in the last five years). Better water availability has also increased milk and livestock production.

Gujarat has promoted drip irrigation, badly needed to conserve water in semi-arid districts. Like other states, Gujarat offers subsidies and loans, but it also fast-tracks and simplifies procedures. Farmers contribute 5% initially. Then a state-owned company provides 50% as subsidy, and arranges a bank loan for the balance of 45%. One lakh acres have been covered by drip irrigation so far. Like the Sardar Sarovar Project, drip irrigation’s total irrigation potential is far higher.

Research shows that rural roads are the most important investment for agriculture. Gujarat has one of the best rural road networks in India, and 98.7% of villages are connected by pukka roads.

Modi’s Jyotigram scheme for power has provided regular, high-quality electricity to villages, greatly helping farming. Jyotigram provides separate electric feeders for domestic use and pump-sets. This permits the state to supply round-the-clock domestic supply, while limiting agricultural supply to eight hours a day (which is continuous and of constant voltage).

This has facilitated a switch to high-value crops like mango, banana and wheat, which need assured water. Constant voltage has protected farmers from damage to pump-sets earlier caused by fluctuating voltage. Continuous power for non-agricultural uses has spurred diversification into non-farm activities, vital for rural growth.
The irrigated area has expanded at the rate of 4.4% per year. The fastest growth in crops has been in wheat, followed by cotton and fruits and vegetables.

Private seed companies have brought in new technology for several crops, ranging from bajra to castor, but above all in Bt cotton. More than 20 Bt cotton varieties are now produced by 30 seed companies. In his election campaign, Modi waxed eloquent about Gujarat’s success in cotton.

He declared that Gujarat was now famous in China as the producer and exporter of Bt cotton, and he said this was a source of Gujarati pride. (Let me add that this is a great improvement on his earlier notion of Hindu pride, exemplified in his ‘gaurav yatra’ after Godhra).

Gujarat has only 26% of India’s cotton area, but 35.5% of its production, thanks to high yields.

Rising world prices have also helped, and been buttressed by a huge jump in the minimum, support price for cotton.

New institutional arrangements like contract farming have helped improve marketing. Gujarat’s famous dairy co-operatives (everybody loves Amul) have provided a stable basis for milk and livestock development. But the private sector is emerging as an important player too. Corporates have entered agro-exports, agro-processing, organised food retail, and rural infrastructure development.

Vimal Dairy and Vadilal Industries have entered the dairy sector. Agrocel has taken up organic farming of cotton and sesame seeds. Atreyas Agro and Godrej Agrovel plan contract cultivation of jatropha and palm oil respectively. Food retail chains like Food Bazaar, Reliance Fresh and Spencer have sprung up in Gujarat’s cities, sourcing produce from farmers directly.

The state has helped catalyse production, notably in water harvesting. It has worked with NGOs and companies to bring the best technology to farmers. Gujarat Agricultural University has been split into four separate universities, helping strengthen R&D.

Can this be replicated in other states? Much of it can. Jyotigram looks least likely to be replicated because it abandons the free-but-unreliable rural power that politicians regard as vote-winners in most states. Many states also prefer large irrigation projects to small water-harvesting ones, since bigger projects translate into bigger kickbacks. Yet Modi’s electoral success points to a new way of winning rural votes. Others should sit up and take notice.

 

[Bhai Zakir]

Noodle recipe?

It only took you one post before resorting to racism, well done.

And for your information, I want Congress to win, because their super-socialist schemes will destroy India's economic competitiveness, and forever prevent India from ever becoming competition for us.

Congress serves the interests of India's enemies. So you are doing a good job in promoting them on our behalf.

So thanks for that.

You are wrong congress is the only party that can prevent the fall of India:

1.) There are lots of income disparity due to fast raising city wages and slow groth in rural areas. Most of the Indian states are poor or suffering because they don't have congress rule for decades like Bihar, UP, Orrisa, West Bengal etc.

2.) If congress don't provide MNREGA the rural people will flock to cities and will eat up all the infrastructure, resources and as India's growth engines are cities we have to save them. That's why congress is building metro trains, airports etc.

3.) MNREGA like schemes for jobs, MP schemes for connecting each and every village with paved roads, clean drinking water to villages, electricity to villages and telecom facilities to villages are helping the growth of India's rural areas.

4.) Its also keeping Indian cities free from unnecessary load and grow as they like.

5.) Congress with the partnership with japan is building many projects with new airports, fast fright train corridor, expressways, smart cities and industries corridor that will propel India into a Manufacturing nation in a very big way.

6.) If congress don't provide some stuff like cheap food or rural jobs it will generate anger in the public and they will became Maoist.

So, its all just to make India progress and developed.

Here is an article by the Economist Brother of CONgress leader Mani Shankar Aiyer (...of Modi can put up tea stall fame)

Agriculture: Secret of Modi’s success « Swaminomics

However, an excellent new study suggests that the secret of Modi’s success lay in agriculture, an area completely neglected by political analysts. Ashok Gulati, Tushaar Shah and Ganga Sreedhar have written an IFPRI paper, ‘Agricultural Performance in Gujarat Since 2000’, which highlights something few people know — that Gujarat’s agricultural performance is by far the best in India.

Between 2000-01 and 2007-08 agricultural value added grew at a phenomenal 9.6% per year (despite a major drought in 2002). This is more than double India’s agricultural growth rate, and much faster than Punjab’s farm growth in the green revolution heyday. Indeed, 9.6% agricultural growth is among the fastest rates recorded anywhere in the world. That drives home the magnitude of Gujarat’s performance.

Since the bulk of Gujarat’s population is still rural, this mega-boom in agriculture must have created millions of satisfied voters. Hence it must have played a major role in Modi’s victory. Yet I did not see a single media analyst mention it.

Gujarat is drought prone, with 70% of its area classified as semi-arid and arid. Although journalists focus on the Sardar Sarovar Project, its canal network is hopelessly incomplete, and currently irrigates only 0.1 million hectares. No less than 82% of irrigation in the state comes from tubewells, which have depleted groundwater. By the mid-1990s, groundwater extraction exceeded natural recharge in 31 talukas, and 90% of the safe extraction yield in another 12 talukas.

.....The IFPRI study says that 10,700 check dams were built up to 2000, and helped drought-proof 32,000 hectares. That sounds a lot. But subsequently, under Modi, Gujarat has built ten times as many check dams! He could well say ‘chak de, check dam’. These have played a big role in the agricultural growth of Saurashtra and Kutch (aided, it must be said, by bountiful monsoons in the last five years). Better water availability has also increased milk and livestock production.

Gujarat has promoted drip irrigation, badly needed to conserve water in semi-arid districts. Like other states, Gujarat offers subsidies and loans, but it also fast-tracks and simplifies procedures. Farmers contribute 5% initially. Then a state-owned company provides 50% as subsidy, and arranges a bank loan for the balance of 45%. One lakh acres have been covered by drip irrigation so far. Like the Sardar Sarovar Project, drip irrigation’s total irrigation potential is far higher.

Research shows that rural roads are the most important investment for agriculture. Gujarat has one of the best rural road networks in India, and 98.7% of villages are connected by pukka roads.

Modi’s Jyotigram scheme for power has provided regular, high-quality electricity to villages, greatly helping farming. Jyotigram provides separate electric feeders for domestic use and pump-sets. This permits the state to supply round-the-clock domestic supply, while limiting agricultural supply to eight hours a day (which is continuous and of constant voltage).

This has facilitated a switch to high-value crops like mango, banana and wheat, which need assured water. Constant voltage has protected farmers from damage to pump-sets earlier caused by fluctuating voltage. Continuous power for non-agricultural uses has spurred diversification into non-farm activities, vital for rural growth.
The irrigated area has expanded at the rate of 4.4% per year. The fastest growth in crops has been in wheat, followed by cotton and fruits and vegetables.

Private seed companies have brought in new technology for several crops, ranging from bajra to castor, but above all in Bt cotton. More than 20 Bt cotton varieties are now produced by 30 seed companies. In his election campaign, Modi waxed eloquent about Gujarat’s success in cotton.

He declared that Gujarat was now famous in China as the producer and exporter of Bt cotton, and he said this was a source of Gujarati pride. (Let me add that this is a great improvement on his earlier notion of Hindu pride, exemplified in his ‘gaurav yatra’ after Godhra).

Gujarat has only 26% of India’s cotton area, but 35.5% of its production, thanks to high yields.

Rising world prices have also helped, and been buttressed by a huge jump in the minimum, support price for cotton.

New institutional arrangements like contract farming have helped improve marketing. Gujarat’s famous dairy co-operatives (everybody loves Amul) have provided a stable basis for milk and livestock development. But the private sector is emerging as an important player too. Corporates have entered agro-exports, agro-processing, organised food retail, and rural infrastructure development.

Vimal Dairy and Vadilal Industries have entered the dairy sector. Agrocel has taken up organic farming of cotton and sesame seeds. Atreyas Agro and Godrej Agrovel plan contract cultivation of jatropha and palm oil respectively. Food retail chains like Food Bazaar, Reliance Fresh and Spencer have sprung up in Gujarat’s cities, sourcing produce from farmers directly.

The state has helped catalyse production, notably in water harvesting. It has worked with NGOs and companies to bring the best technology to farmers. Gujarat Agricultural University has been split into four separate universities, helping strengthen R&D.

Can this be replicated in other states? Much of it can. Jyotigram looks least likely to be replicated because it abandons the free-but-unreliable rural power that politicians regard as vote-winners in most states. Many states also prefer large irrigation projects to small water-harvesting ones, since bigger projects translate into bigger kickbacks. Yet Modi’s electoral success points to a new way of winning rural votes. Others should sit up and take notice.

Even when i have busted the bubble with the Plan Panel report which is bible as compared to a newspaper article still ur

Oh...i forget i am debating with a person who is so blind in worshiping Modi that he is having fake avatar of Feku Modi even when its proved to be 100% fake.

 

[Manvantaratruti]

Even when i have busted the bubble with the Plan Panel report which is bible as compared to a newspaper article still ur

Oh...i forget i am debating with a person who is so blind in worshiping Modi that he is having fake avatar of Feku Modi even when its proved to be 100% fake.

You Fail again.

A scholarly article presented in IFPRI is FAR more credible than a Report by the congress govt. released during election time

As to my Avatar, It will forever show the world how the congress and Jihadi propaganda machine failed and how Modi army converted that into a moral victory.

 

[VeeraBahadur]

1.)
2.) Its not about some noodle recipe i know china want Modi because it will harm India but you should not jump to the matter in which ur knowledeg is "Zero"

No , it's Pakistanies who want Congress so that they can appeasing minorities till the day comes when terrorists organisations in India become so powerful that Shinde like HM don't even bother to order enuiry in bomb blasts carried by them.

 

[Bhai Zakir]

No , it's Pakistanies who want Congress so that they can appeasing minorities till the day comes when terrorists organisations in India become so powerful that Shinde like HM don't even bother to order enuiry in bomb blasts carried by them.

Post reported for sick personal attack.

You Fail again.

A scholarly article presented in IFPRI is FAR more credible than a Report by the congress govt. released during election time

As to my Avatar, It will forever show the world how the congress and Jihadi propaganda machine failed and how Modi army converted that into a moral victory.

post reported for personal attack and calling Jihadi.

 

[Manvantaratruti]

post reported for personal attack and calling Jihadi.

LOL. Are you not the same person who said you will not report me but EXPOSE me ?

Looks like all congress keyboard warriors loose their spine pretty fast.

BTW Jihad for an Muslim is religious struggle. So a Jihadi is one who does a religious struggle. Are you telling us that you do not struggle against all that is 'evil' ?

Since your religion advocates Jihad as a religious duty, I wonder what your objection is. What you are really saying is "Jihad" and "Jihadi" is an insult and a slur word. So I really think it is you who is insulting the religion and all those who practice it, rather than me.

A true muslim would have considered me calling you a 'Jihadi' as a complement.

If you can clarify to me that you are not a Jihadi and do not plan to do Jihad ever in your life, I will be happy to not call you a Jihadi anymore.

 

[VeeraBahadur]

Post reported for sick personal attack.




post reported for personal attack and calling Jihadi.

Are you dumb or what ?? Which part was personal ??Isn' it truth ??
Sushil Kumar Shinde to write to CMs again on cases against minority youths - Economic Times



And see who is complaining , you just talked trash by taunting on Chinese Dragon with noodles taunt??

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

The bottom line is that only Modi can bring India to sustained double digit growth.

He proved it already in Gujarat, which was the ONLY major Indian province, that was able to sustain double digit growth in the past decade.

So luckily for us, BJP will not win. Congress are too good at playing politics, dear Zakir being the best example of that.

Even of Congress can't win directly, they will split the BJP's support and weaken them so much they won't be able to do anything. Or even bring in a third front.

Congress will do what India's worst enemies could never do... i.e. destroy India's economy.

But what do I know, only "noodle recipes" unfortunately.

 

[jarves]

The bottom line is that only Modi can bring India to sustained double digit growth.

He proved it already in Gujarat, which was the ONLY major Indian province, that was able to sustain double digit growth in the past decade.

So luckily for us, BJP will not win. Congress are too good at playing politics, dear Zakir being the best example of that.

Even of Congress can't win directly, they will split the BJP's support and weaken them so much they won't be able to do anything. Or even bring in a third front.

Congress will do what India's worst enemies could never do... i.e. destroy India's economy.

But what do I know, only "noodle recipes" unfortunately.

You know India better than some Indians.
How do you know so much about democracy?

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

You know India better than some Indians.
How do you know so much about democracy?

I am from Hong Kong.

We are ranked the #2 best in Asia on the press freedom index.

I know all about media games, voting, sh*tty politics and everything else.

You think Indian politics is bad?

In our last elections, 2 out of 3 candidates for the top post (HK Chief Executive) were blatantly corrupt.