Agricmtural/Non-Agricultural Income Disparity in India Trend Over 1951-52 /2001-02 andPattern Across the States

摘要

The objective of this paper is to analyse the trend in income differential between agricultural population and non-agricultural population in India over the 1951-52/2001-02 period. An attempt is also made to picture the extend and pattern of inter-state variation in income differntial between these two groups of population. The disparity between income of agricultural population and of non-agriculttfral population has serious implications both for political stability as well as for welfare of the rural masses. That is why parity between agricultural and non-agricultural income is an accepted goal of agricultural policy in the developed countries since the second world war (Gardner, 2002). And parity they have been ensuring by paying huge subsidies to the agricultural population; because market mechanism fails to ensure it. In section one nature of data and concepts used are briefly described. The trend in income disparity between agricultural population and non-agricultural population is analysed in section two, and the extend and pattern of inter-state variation in this income disparity in section three.