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Development Strategy in Bihar through Revitalizing the Agricultural Sector: A Preliminary Analysis

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  • Fujita Koichi

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Based mainly on secondary data and partly on primary information obtained through field surveys in selected rural areas in Bihar in 2011, this paper firstly argues the critical importance of agricultural growth for overall economic development, and then reviews the sluggish growth of agriculture in Bihar in the past and examines the major reasons for this. There is, in particular, the ‘paradox’ in Bihar agriculture of why rice and wheat yields have remained so low in spite of the relatively well-developed irrigation by tube-wells. Finally, the paper suggests that Bihar farmers and policy-makers should learn from the experience of West Bengal in order to get some hints for the development of the rice sector in Bihar.

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  • Fujita Koichi, 2015. "Development Strategy in Bihar through Revitalizing the Agricultural Sector: A Preliminary Analysis," Working Papers id:7614, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:7614
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