in Indian Agriculture Regional Dimensions S Mahendra Dev This paper examines the growth of labour productivity in agriculture during the period between the triennia 1962-65 and 1975-78 at the level of all-India and for 56 agro-climatic regions and the contributions of yield, cropping intensity and land-labour ratio to the increase/decrease of labour productivity in each of these agro- climatic regions. Finally, the author discusses the association between the level of labour productivity in agriculture and rural poverty.