Draft Eleventh Five Year Plan 2007-12 and Annual Plan 2007-08 Volume-II (Sectoral Programmes) Government of Uttarakhand

Abstract

Out of the total population of 84.89 lakh (census 2001)in the State , 74% live in villages where agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. About 52% of main workers and 76% of marginal workers are engaged in agriculture. However, the contribution of this sector to Gross State Domestic Product is around 30 percent only that too is largely concentrated in the three plain districts of Udham Singh Nagar, Haridwar and Dehradun. Number of cultivators is 15.70 lakh and of agricultural labourer is 2.60 lakh. It means that 22% of total population is actually engaged in farming. the agriculture sector accounts for 29.9% share in State GDP (at current prices).