India’s major cash crops, cotton and sugarcane, and foodgrains like wheat and rice have registered a major decline in productivity during the last three years, an analysis carried out by Assocham stated.The analysis of state-wise yield rate of foodgrains reveals a drastic decline in the production rate of major cotton growing states. Ten of the 20 sugarcane producing states witnessed a falling the yield rate, thereby depressing the all-India production rate.Yield of wheat at national level rose from 2,590 kg per hectare in 1998-99 to 2,778 kg per hectare in 1999-2000 only to decline the following year to 2,743 kg per hectare. Major wheat producing states registered a decline in productivity.
