Intensive agricultural district programme: an analysis of results

Abstract

The results of the Intensive Agricultural District Programme indicate that the strategy of intensification of effort on an area basis has not achieved the objective of rapid increase in agricultural production. The whole strategy of the IADP is supply-based and does not take into consideration the demand aspect of inputs. It is the demand for inputs which will determine their efficient allocation, Unless a strategy is evolved to combine scarce technical financial and administrative inputs with the managerial inputs of the efficient farmers, rapid growth in agricultural production is unlikely to be achieved. This lesson of the IADP should not be lost and the same mistake should not be repeated in the High-Yielding Varieties Programme.