States' Agriculture Budget as Share of Total State Budget

One of the important indicators to understand the budgetary priorities towards agriculture sector is the share of agriculture sector budget in the total State budget. Among non-special category States, the share (average for the years 2016-17 to 2021-22) of agriculture sector budget in total State budget is found to be the highest in Chhattisgarh, followed by Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. However, it is also to be noted that there is no consistency in these shares for Chhattisgarh over the years. Haryana, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Bihar are devoting comparatively lesser amount of resources from their respective State budgets towards agriculture sector. They are spending even less than three per cent share (average). None of the special category States have been spending more than four per cent as share (average) from their respective state budgets towards agriculture sector. One important finding noted here is that, over the years, agriculture sector in states has been at the receiving end without adequate budgetary allocations and priorities attached to this sector in overall budgets of states.

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