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CROPPING PATTERN CHANGE IN JAMMU & KASHMIR-A CASE STUDY OF DISTRICT KULGAM

2016; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.6084/m9.figshare.4282868.v1

1556-5068

Shah Mohd Asif,

Agricultural risk and resilience

Cropping pattern of an area implies the proportion of area under various crops at a time. Crops are usually classified into two broad types as food crops and cash crops. Food crops are mainly grown to fulfill the basic needs the humans in the form of food and animals in the form of fodder, whereas, cash crops are mainly grown for income generation. Cropping patterns are heavily influenced by several factors like terrain, topography, slope , temperature, rainfall, soil type and availability of water for irrigation. The topography of the Jammu and Kashmir State, and Kashmir region in particular restricts the productivity of several crops to a greater extent. The region is witnessing a greater change in the cropping pattern for the past few decades, where the cashcrops (particularly apple) are replacing the food crop (particularly paddy) at a faster rate. The aim of this paper is to study the changes in the cropping pattern in the region, where the circumstances are paving way for specialization rather than diversification. Chi-Square test has been used to check the association of various socioeconomic variables to change in production of paddy and apple over the last seven years. The primary data is supplemented with the secondary data from various sources to represent the changes in the cropping pattern over the years.