Determinants of Agriculture Production in Uttar Pradesh, India:A Regional Analysis

Growth of agricultural sector of an economy depends mainly on economic, ecological, social, technological and institutional factors. Present study tries to take climatic factors in center and link with agricultural production and productivity of food and non-food grain crops during 1980-2010. Deceleration in rainfall and acceleration in temperatures is observed at regional level. Further, imbalance use of agricultural inputs viz., chemical fertilizers one hand and much use of ground water on other hand, has been increased cost of cultivation. Moreover, decline in mean land size is becoming vulnerable in the presence of climate change. Due to, price support policy, high price crops are increasing area share one hand and other hand cheap crops are losing their area share.