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Titre : Spatio-temporal changes in agricultural productivity in the drought prone region in Maharashtra state : A geographical perspective

Auteur : Adnaik, Namdeo Shamrao

Université de soutenance : Shivaji University

Grade : Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Geography 2005

Résumé
The present research work is to study the spatio-temporal changes in the agricultural Productivity in the study region, during the period of last two decades from the geographer’s viewpoint. This broad objective can be broken into the following main components. 1) To trace the factors responsible for the changes in the agricultural productivity in the drought prone region of Maharashtra. 2) To study the changes in the general land use pattern in the study region. 3) To study the changes in the cropping patterns in the study area. 4) To study the agricultural Productivity in terms of a) Ranking coefficient (M.G.Kendall’s Method) b) Index ofProductivity (Bhatia’s and Enyedi’s) c) Shafi’s Modified Productivity coefficient Index d) Agricultural Productivity based on standard nutrition units. e) Agricultural Productivity based on the total number of calories available per person ) Agricultural Productivity based on money out put per hectare ofcropped land. g) Agricultural Productivity based on money out-put per agricultural worker. h) Aggregate Productivity based on all Productivity methods. 5) To study the spatial and temporal patterns of agricultural productivity and changes in the productivity pattern in the study area 6) To delimit the areas of low, medium and high agricultural productivity in the study region. 7) To give suggestions to increase the agricultural Productivity in the drought prone region in Maharashtra State.

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