Geography · Economy and Agriculture of Jharkhand
Which factor contributed most to the 'Stagnation of Productivity' in Jharkhand's agriculture between the 1960s and 1990s compared to the Punjab-Haryana region?
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- 1The mass migration of the entire farming population to the coal mines of Dhanbad, leaving no labor for the fields.
- 2The lack of land consolidation (Chakbandi) due to the protective provisions of the CNT and SPT Acts, which prevented the creation of large, machine-friendly farm plots.✓
- 3A state-wide ban on the use of chemical fertilizers to preserve the traditional 'organic' status of tribal medicines.
- 4The total absence of rainfall in the plateau region which made the Green Revolution technologies physically impossible to implement.
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The lack of land consolidation (Chakbandi) due to the protective provisions of the CNT and SPT Acts, which prevented the creation of large, machine-friendly farm plots.
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