Growth and modernization of Agriculture in Jammu and Kashmir

Since the long stagnation of Jammu and Kashmir economy during 90’s due terrorism, the state has shown the increasing trend in its growth of economy since beginning of 21th century. With this changing environment in the state, Agriculture sector enhances growth and stagnant industrial sector start growing which opens routs for the growth of services sector by peace and harmony in the state in last 13 years by 1999 to 2012. In this paper we focus upon the different dimensions of growth in the agriculture of Jammu and Kashmir from last thirty years. This paper takes a more emphasizing on aspect of technological progress and the transformation of traditional agriculture of Jammu and Kashmir which become responsible for small growth in the industrial sector of the state. The paper concludes that Agriculture in the state is growing tremendously but still the use of modern agriculture measure is limited due to slow growth in industrial sector