The Agriculture of Jammu and Kashmir (1951-1960)

Abstract

Objectives: To explore land utilization, crops, and how much area was under cultivation, futility, yield of the land and pressure of the people on the land in Jammu and Kashmir during 1951-1960.

Methods/Statistical analysis: Data has been collected from both primary and secondary sources like data available from State and National Archives, Indian Agriculture research and Research libraries, Bulletin on Food Statistics, Digest of Statistics etc.

Findings: We find that during our reference period, about 50% of the Net State Domestic product was contributed by Agriculture sector, whereas the secondary and tertiary sectors contributed 19% and 31% respectively. The total area of the  state of Jammu and Kashmir, according to the latest figures provided by the survey of India, Dehra Dun, was 138992 square kilo meters, out of this area 138,686.7 square km were rural and 305.4 km, urban. The total area calculated of urban in the province of Kashmir was 189.3km and 115.1 km in Jammu.

Application: The study stresses the role of modern techniques and innovations in agriculture sector so as to increase the production and production of major crops of the period under study. Very little have been written on the said period by the scholars and didn’t devote their attention on the statistical data and classification of workers. It is in this context in the present paper I have tried to fill this gap.

Keywords: Crops, Agriculture, Cultivating owners, Tenant cultivators and Agriculture labors.