Population Growth, Agricultural Production and Productivity and Size of Holding: A Case Study of Cachar District of Assam.

Abstract

In recent years, one of the major issues in the world, especially, in LDCs has been the alarming rate of poverty, unemployment, food security. In India this has been a huge problem due to increase the growth of population with fewer resources. Therefore, the need to provide adequate food for entire population becomes a huge concern to the entire populace. This grim condition was put forwarded earlier in the Classical Economist by Robert Tomas Malthus, an English Economist and Demographer. He predicted that population growth is exponential while agricultural productivity growth follows a linear trends, food demand would inevitably, eventually outstrip supply capacity thereby causing mass starvation. A.K Sen also reached on a same conclusion. Whereas, Economist Ester Boserup (1965) identified a proportional relation between population growth and agricultural productivity. The study focusses on the relationship between population growth, agricultural production and productivity and size of holdings. For identifying the relation between population growth and agricultural production and productivity and size of holding the data was collected through a questionnaire from 287 samples. The statistical tools applied for study were Multiple Regression analysis.