AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY IN SOLAPUR DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA: A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

As the largest private enterprise in India, agriculture contributes one forth of the national GDP. Agriculture has been and will continue to be the life line of India economy. However, agriculture productivity and development differ very much from region to region, which needs a detail investigation. The temperature and pedagogical conditions are favorable for growing valuable crops like jawar, sugarcane, oil seeds, bajara, wheat, etc. By contrast, very low level of agriculture productivity is confined to the tahsils belonging to drought prone areas having irregular rainfall, rugged topography and poor irrigation facilities. Inadequacy of water is main hurdle in agriculture productivity. For the present investigation tahsilwise secondary data has been collected from socio-economic review and District Statistical Abstract. The data collected has been processed and method of yield co-efficient method has been employed to find out the levels agriculture productivity. The result are shown in tabular and from and are also depicted by choropleth method on map. Hence, in present paper an attempt has been made to assess the regional disparities in levels of agriculture productivity in Solapur District of Maharashtra.