Farm Size, Irrigation and Intensity of Land Use in Indian Agriculture

Rising land productivity is the only solid and enduring basis for Indian agriculture to achieve a continuous increase in production. A rise in land productivity can take place in many ways. One such possibility lies in increasing multiple cropped area, either by introducing new crops or by expanding area under existing ones. The underlying assumption is that every unit of the incremental cropped area gives some additional output, albeit small, so that output per acre of net sown area rises although it mayor may not give an increase in output per acre of gross cropped area.