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J. Agri. Develop. & Policy Vol. 11, No.2, 1999

PROBLEMS AND CONSTRAINTS IN PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF HIGH-VALUE CROPS IN HIMACHAL PRADESH Sanjay Kumar * Kehar Singh & S.C.Tewari** Introduction IHimachal agriculture is characterised by the internal variability with a multiplicity of highly localizedand complex micro-ecosystem. Incidentally, Himachal Pradesh is like most of the other hillystates of the country, where the Green Revolution has not brought discernible breakthrough in the production of foodgrains. The average yield of important foodgr~~s7i.~}he~a1~ is nw~~ j , belowthe . J' national averageI and it remained more or less stagnant forliast two decades or so.The

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populattonfn"crease\basnecessitated both an extension and intensification of agriculture on the meagrearable land (10-.430/0of the geographical area» This has resulted into heavy pressure on the fragile ecosystem thmugh increased agronomic stress(To maintain sustainable growth of agriculturalsector without further disturbing the fragile ecology and reducing the socio-economic stress,there is a need to modify the existing farmland uses'

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