Draft Sixth Five Year Plan 1978-83 Revised

Abstract

Agricultural output has risen throughout this period, though slowly. While the production of food grains has increased to levels which make us virtually self-sufficient at our current low standards of per capita consumption, in two key cash crops, oil seeds and occasionally cotton, we continue to rely to a significant degree on imports. Though the area under irrigation has doubled in the period of planning, we are far short of developing the full potential.