Draft Annual Plan 1982-83 Volume I Government of Assam

Abstract

Preceding paragraphs bring out that the State's economy is basically agrarian and agriculture continues to be the main-stay with the people of Assam. The agricultural sector exhibits all the symptoms of a backward economy characterised by a level of agricultural productivity below the national average, poor technology, lack of modernisation, imbalance in the land holding patterns and consequent poverty at the base