Investment in Agriculture-Brief Review of Recent Trends

Investment in Agriculture Brief Review of Recent Trends S L Shetty This paper undertakes a review of the behaviour of public and private sector investment in agriculture, essentially based on the new series of National Accounts Statistics published by the CSO. The comparison over time has been made possible by the CSO's commendable effort at providing a long-term series for all the years from 1950-51 based on the revised national Accounts statistics with 1980-81 as the base year While Section I of the paper presents different dimensions of the trends in agricultural investment as discernible from the CSO data, Section II suggests plausible explanations for the discerned statistical trends.