Assessment of Agriculture Productivity Performance in the Region of Tamilnadu Using Composite Agriculture Productivity Index

Agriculture is the life line of the Indian economy and vital activity of a human being.About 65% of Indian population depends directly on agriculture and it accounts for around 15% of GDP.Over the past decade the agriculture production in districts of Tamil Nadu had faced many challenges.However, agriculture productivity differs from region to region, which needs a detailed investigation.The main objective of this paper is to assess the agriculture productivity performance of Tamilnadu.The data was collected from secondary sources from Department of Economics and Statistics during the period of 2002-03 to 2011-12.Bhatia's Method was applied to calculate the Composite Agriculture Productivity Index.The districts were classified and labeled as Low Productivity Districts (LPD), Moderate Productivity Districts (MPD) and High Productivity Districts (HPD) based on the index values.