ABSTRACT
Farming in India has largely remained primitive despite the advancement in modern farming technology. Farmers started to adopt technological innovations to help increase food production and farm productivity. The effect of liberalisation policies on agriculture growth, productivity and the convergence of regional structure are of a particular interest to policy-makers and regional planners. The deregulation and privatisation of the Indian economy driven by a neo-liberal agenda posits numerous challenges for the agriculture sector, which operates within a non-competitive market of more traditional subsistence farming. The Green Revolution further provided the impetus to increase agricultural productivity, which occurred during the first phase of agricultural development in India in the 1970s. Changing cropping patterns, variegated agro-ecological conditions and unpredictability of monsoon, regional variation in soil fertility levels and changing food consumption habits are major factors which drive the extent of food supply and consumption requirements in India.
