Appendix 8: Notes on Calculations of 



Total Factor Productivity 



by Major Indian State 1953-70 



1. The output index is taken from Growth Rates in Agriculture to 

 J 965. Data on output by state for later years is from Agricul- 

 tural Situation in India and Estimated Area and Productivity of 

 Principal Crops in India, G.O.I. , Ministry of Agriculture. 



2. The input quantity indexes used in this calculation were: 



a. Land: An annual index of net harvested acreage from the 

 same sources as the output data. 



b. Fertilizer: Data from a World Bank Study. W. B. Donde 

 and D. B. Brown, Effective Demand for Fertilizer in India. 

 N.P. and K. treated as separate inputs. 



c. Pump Irrigation: Data from livestock census, 1951, 1956, 

 1961. For 1966, 1967, 1968, from Economic and Social In- 

 dicators of India, VSAID, 1912. 



d. Tractors: Data on number of agricultural tractors interpo- 

 lated between Census of Livestock, 1951, 1956, 1961, and 

 1966. After 1966 for later years from estimate given by 

 MMA Baig, Manager, Market Research Escorts Limited 

 (correspondence to Rakesh Mohan, July 10, 1972). 



e. Implements: Wooden plows, iron plows, cane crushers, 

 Ghanis, and carts from Indian Livestock Census, 1951, 

 1956, 1961, 1966. Linear interpolation between census 

 and extrapolation after 1966. 



/. Bullock labor: Male cattle and male buffalo used for work, 

 from Indian Livestock Census 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966. 

 Linear interpolation between census and extrapolation of 

 1961-66 trend to 1971. An adjustment for days worked 

 per year was made from Farm Management Survey Data. 



g. Human labor: Data on number of male cultivators and 

 male agricultural laborers from Fact Book on Manpower, 

 Institute of Applied Manpower Research, New Delhi, and 

 Provisional Population Totals, Paper 1 of 197 suppl.. Census 

 of India — 1971. Data on females from tjie same sources. 



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