IMPACT OF CROPPING PATTERN ON AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

ABSTRACT

Agriculture is the major source of food, fibre and raw materials essential to human life. Consequently agriculture has been one of the basic occupations of man throughout the world. Interest in the economic aspects of production, distribution and economic policy relating to agriculture and to the use of farm products is therefore, worldwide. The principle of agriculture is that it deals with life, and with living substances. Its products are the results of processes of life and its means of production is the living soil. A cubic centimeter of fertile soil contains million of living organisms, the full exploration of which is far beyond the capacities of man. Man's management of the land must be primarily oriented towards four goals-health, beauty, permanence and productivity. Agricultural Cropping pattern means the proportional are wider different crops at a particular point of time. The cropping pattern of any region is the outcome along process of historical evaluation. In the present paper attempts to analysea the trends of cropping pattern and appraises the impact of cropping pattern on agricultural development in Andhra Pradesh.