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3.4. Comparative data of the crop productivity of the area: project area vs. District vs. State vs. Country vs. World:
“The term productivity in general means the total output per unit of factor input. For example land productivity means output
per hectare of land. Productivity is an average and is calculated by dividing the total output of a particular crop by the total
cultivated area under that crop.”
Data are made available by the Baseline survey (for Kadegi Project), Handbook of Agriculture, ICAR publication 2006(For
Gujarat and India), and Final district plan (IWDP) of Dept. of Agriculture (for Porbandar). The results indicate that Kadegi
Project has very low productivity compared to world, India, Gujarat and Porbandar. The productivity is low not only because
that the land is unproductive or the farmer’s lack the skills to manage their crop but also due lack to of source of irrigation, salty
water and scarcity of rain.
The Kadegi Project comes under arid zone. So farmers grow crop according to the rainfall. If they get good rainfall they
generally grow high value crops like Ground nut, Juwar etc. In case of low rainfall they can’t take any crops. So we can say that
monsoon decides cropping patterns of Kadegi Project.
The world productivity of Ground nuts is 665.80 kg/ha. In India, it is grown in about 7.3 lakh hectares with a production of 8.0
lakh tonnes and productivity of 1,094 kg/ha. Gujarat alone produces about 80% of the total castor of our country from 50% of
the area with a record productivity of about 1950 kg/ha. Porbanar district has very good productivity 1300 kg /ha. The Kadegi
Projectarea has only 400 kg/ha productivity. It is very low compare to district, State, India and world.
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