“Neighbourhood
and agricultural clusters across states of India”
Citation: Chatterjee T., and A. Ganesh-Kumar.
2014. “Neighbourhood and agricultural clusters across states of India”,
WP-2014-044, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai.
Abstract: In this study we trace how number
and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last
four and a half decades. Two features which stand out in our results are that
not all geographical neighbors belong to the same
cluster and clusters include both geographical neighbors
and non-neighbors. To identify the factors driving a
pair of states to common cluster we then use a logit model and find that
smaller is the relative difference between them in terms of mechanization,
infrastructural support, deviations from normal rainfall and price differences,
higher are the chances that they will be in the same income cluster. Between
contiguous and non-contiguous state pairs we find that apart from the common
factors, smaller relative differences in irrigation support, rainfall and price
differences additionally brings non-contiguous states together.