Regional Disparities in Growth and Structure of Public Investment in Agricultural Research and Education

The present paper studies the regional disparities in structure of investment in agricultural research and education and assess the productivity gains in agriculture arising out of research investment. Results observed that all the States showed impressive growth in research investments and spent more on agricultural research relative to their agricultural gross domestic product (agricultural research intensity) in 1992-94 than they did in 1980-82. Results also indicate an association between high growth rate in real investment in research and education and growth in average value of yield per hectare in all states except West Bengal.