Pattern of Crop Diversification and Disparities in Agriculture: A Case Study of Dibrugarh District, Assam (India).

Abstract

The progress of human civilization mainly depends on agriculture. In the rural areas particularly in India, for sustainable income and employment, people seems to be very much dependent on the degree of diversification of landuse towards cultivating various types of crops. Crop diversification refers to the raising of varieties of crops in a given area in a crop season. To achieve agricultural sustainability there must be crop diversification. The economy of Dibrugarh District of Assam located in the North Eastern corner of India, is mainly agrarian as most of the population are engaged in agriculture. But due to lack infrastructure and others, the agricultural sustainability in the study area is hindered. So to achieve agricultural sustainability, Dibrugarh district should go for crop diversification. In this context the present paper tries to study pattern of crop diversification and find out the nature of change in cropping pattern during the period lying between 1999-2000 and 2009-10 in Dibrugarh district. It also tries to find out the nature and magnitude of disparity in agriculture in the study area .The varying natural, socio-economic and cultural environments in Dibrugarh exercise a critical and differential effect on the adoption of modern farm technology which has resulted to disparity in agriculture.