Food Security Atlas Of RURAL MAHARASHTRA - WFP Remote ...

4.2. ProductionTable 4.1: Growth of Agricultural GDP and GSDP across StatesState 1983-84 to 1993-94 1993-94 to 2003-04(at 1980-81 Prices)(at 1993-94 Prices)Agricultural GSDP GSDP Agricultural GSDP GSDPAndhra Pradesh 3.05 4.58 2.80 5.63Assam 2.12 3.51 0.51 2.93Bihar -0.45 *** 2.69 2.50 5.34Gujarat 0.84 *** 5.00 1.13 *** 6.19Haryana 4.86 6.18 1.77 5.96Himachal Pradesh 3.08 5.89 1.30 6.53Jharkhand 4.25 4.28Karnataka 3.54 5.86 3.12 7.10Kerala 4.40 5.33 -2.00 * 4.85Madhya Pradesh 2.82 * 5.21 0.23 *** 4.14Maharashtra 5.39 * 7.42 1.27 4.92Orissa -0.57 *** 3.39 0.17 *** 3.96Punjab 4.62 5.13 2.15 4.13Rajasthan 3.93 6.19 1.21 *** 5.32Tamil Nadu 4.43 7.45 -0.60 *** 5.08Uttar Pradesh 2.8 4.66 2.18 3.76West Bengal 4.45 4.73 3.45 7.03India 3.05 5.32 2.19 6.01CV for States 58.72 25.43 102.88 22.75Note:Growth is Compound Annual Growth Rate. GSDP denotes Gross State Domestic Product. All growth rates are significant at 5 per cent, but for * whichis significant at 10 per cent and *** which is insignificant even at 20 per cent. CV denotes coefficient of variation.Source: CSO, Gross State Domestic Product, Various Years.The lower productivity of agriculture, however, is not uniform across the state. There is a cleardifference between agriculture in western Maharashtra and the rest of the state. The share of irrigatedcropped area has risen from 6.48 percent in 1960-61 to 15.41 percent in 1999-2000. This itself islow in comparison with the all-India average of 33 percent (Government of Maharashtra, 2002, pp.36-37). Along with this low proportion of irrigated area, most of the irrigated area is concentrated inpart of the plains of Western Maharashtra, in its belt of sugarcane cultivation in the Pune Division, forcultivation, and of sugarcane, grapes and other fruits and vegetables around Nashik, and in the coastalKonkan belt.In most of the plains of Vidarbha and Marathwada cash crops, such as cotton and oilseeds, are grownon a large scale. Being rainfed crops, their yields are subject to the vagaries of rainfall, while pricesFOOD AVAILABILITY33