Volume 14 | Issue 5
Volume 14 | Issue 5
Volume 14 | Issue 5
Volume 14 | Issue 5
Volume 14 | Issue 5
Now a day’s explosively increasing population is one of the foremost challenge facing the world in general and underdeveloped and developed countries in particular. This resulted in food shortage worldwide. Inadequate production of food grain is one of the most important reasons behind food scarcity. Thus there is need to increase the agricultural production especially food grains. The term productivity can be considered more physical rather than a value concept. Productivity is defined as output per unit area of input or per unit area respectively. It is a measure of efficiency by which the inputs are utilized in terms of production. According to Bhatia (1967) “An agricultural efficiency is aggregate performance of various crops in regards to their output per acre.” The agricultural productivity is considered as very complex and multidimensional concept. Kendall (1939) has suggested a method of determining agricultural efficiency which is based on output per unit area and put forth a system of ranking co-efficient. He considered the hectare yield of ten leading crops for 48 administrative countries and energy co-efficient on starch equivalent technique for measuring the productivity.