Crop Diversification in Haryana: An Empirical District-Level Analysis

Crop diversification is an indispensable pre-requisite for agriculture based economies such as the Haryana state to efficiently utilise, regenerate, and conserve limited resources.It is also essential to enhance economic growth and development through the availability of different crops.Therefore, the present study aimed to analyse the district level extent of crop diversification in Haryana with use of different crop diversification indices.To fulfil study objectives, the study used secondary data, taking an average of three years, i.e., 2004-07 and 2018-21.The study focused to analyse the cropping pattern in Haryana.The findings revealed that districts situated in south as well as south-west Haryana had highly crop diversified as compared to northern districts in Haryana.