Gulf War- Within Manageable Limits


taneously give a fillip to agricultural development.
Agriculture in Maharashtra continues to remain amongst the most backward in the country. The State accounted for 11 per cent of the gross cropped area under foodgrains in India and 33 per cent of that under cotton in 1982-83. But its production of foodgrains was seven per cent and that of cotton 21 per cent of the all- India output in that year.