Spatial analysis of horticulture efficiency and fruit production concentration in Kashmir Valley
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Spatial analysis of horticulture efficiency and fruit production concentration in Kashmir Valley Vajahat Khursheed . Mohammad Taufique
Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract Horticulture undoubtedly has flourished as a vibrant sub-sector of agriculture and incorporates a brilliant potential to expand its footprints in Jammu and Kashmir. The present study is concerned with the horticulture development in Kashmir Valley and focuses on the determents which influence the horticulture sector in the study area. The secondary sources of data have been brought into use to carry out this assessment. Horticulture forms the major chunk of the economy for the horticulturists of the study area, hence the analysis of its spatial variations in the efficiency and concentration has a tremendous scope. To determine the district wise differences in horticulture efficiency, Bhatia’s method was applied where concentration was worked out through the Location Quotient Method. The output obtained showed a significant variation across the length and breadth of the study area. The results have revealed that efficiency of horticulture has varied from the maximum of 913.35 in Budgam to as low as 66.10 in Bandipora. Further, the concentration of horticulture was more or less uniformly distributed in the Kashmir Valley except for few districts of the central part of the study area.
V. Khursheed (&) M. Taufique Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India e-mail: [email protected]
Keywords Horticulture Kashmir Efficiency Concentration Location Quotient
Introduction Horticulture refers to the science, art, and technology of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, and spice crops. It includes all the garden management but, it consists of intensive commercial production. Horticulture is further divided into the cultivation of food plants (pomology and olericulture) and cultivation for ornament plants (floriculture and landscape horticulture). Pomology is concerned about the fruit like nut crops while as olericulture deals with herbaceous plants for the kitchen which includes carrot, cauliflower, tomatoes, peas, etc. (Janick et al. 2018; Singh 2018). Since the cultivation of fruit crops form the part of horticulture so here, we are wholly concerned about the cultivation and processing of fruits and this same branch of the agriculture is gaining new heights almost with every coming day. Horticultural crops are highvalued crops generating higher profits than staple food crops per unit of land and the income thus generated can be used for different purposes in terms of eradicating hunger through meeting the food requirements and other necessities (Irungu 2011). Despite facing numerous challenges remarkable progress was made by horticulture in recent years from the point of view of the expansion of area and production to its
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large-scale improvement in productivity. Above all now the horticulture is not merely a means of diversification but
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