Changing Patterns of Agricultural Productivity in Uttar Diajpur District, West Bengal

Agricultural productivity is a development index of a region. Block level changing pattern of agricultural productivity highlights in Uttar Dinajpur district has been made in the present study. The aims of the paper is to examine changing pattern of crop productivity in two time period gaps (1990-91 to 2015-16) which is based on the primary and secondary data. It is analysed with the help of Yang’s (1965) crop yield index method of calculation for agricultural productivity. Agricultural productivity is calculated on the basis of three basic indices and overlaying method (ArcGIS) is applied to the estimate of changing pattern of productivity. The changing scenario has been hugely transformed in the year 2015-16 from the base year of 1990-91. But overall agricultural productivity is below the standard level i. e. 289.21 (2010-11) compared to the other districts of West Bengal. Not only that, an agricultural productivity index value varies block to block in the district. The remarkable inequality in agricultural productivity is mainly due to lack of proper implementation of technology, variation in use of modern methods and low per-capita income of land holders, etc.