Comparative Growth Rate of Agriculture in Indian and Pakistani Punjab

Kuldip Singh; T. S. Chahal

Comparative Growth Rate of Agriculture in Indian and Pakistani Punjab

Affiliations
1 Department of Forest and Wildlife, Ludhiana (Punjab), India
2 Institute of Development and Planning, Amritsar (Punjab), India

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An attempt has been made in this paper to analyze the variation in performance of agricultural sector in post independence period in Indian and Pakistani Punjab. The area under wheat, cotton, sugarcane and maize is higher in Pakistani Punjab as compared to Indian Punjab but under rice it is lower in Pakistani Punjab as compared to Indian Punjab. In case of production of wheat, cotton and maize, it is higher in Pakistani Punjab as compared to Indian Punjab but it is lower in the case of rice and sugarcane. In case of yield of wheat, rice and maize it is higher in Indian Punjab as compared to Pakistani Punjab but it is lower in sugarcane and cotton in Indian Punjab during the period of 2003-04. This primarily happened due to adoption of various technologies at a faster rate in Indian Punjab as compared to its counter part in Pakistani Punjab.