226
holdings. Similarly, the eastern region houses 23.6% of farm households and
22% and 20% of the under and area of operational holdings. Its relative share
in agricultural incomes is also high at 17.1 but its share in farm GLC is the
lowest at 8.2% amongst the major regions.
Finally, what is most disquieting is the further widening of the inter-
regional disparities in GLC flow when compared with real indicators. For,
instance, it is found that the relative shares in agricultural incomes of almost
all the developed and underdeveloped regions have remained the same as
between the early 1990s and the last three years of the latest decade: 17%
and 17.6% for the northern region, 17.4% and 17.1% for the eastern region,
22.5% and 21.5% for the central region, 15.0% and 16% for the western region,
and 24.4% and 24.1% for the southern region. On the other hand, the farm
GLC shares of the advanced regions have sharply increased, while those of the
underdeveloped regions have declined except the eastern region for which the
credit share has move up from 6.7% in 1995-96 to 8.2% in 2010-11. The farm
credit share of the central region has slipped from 16.1% to 13.4% and that of
the western region from rather sharply 19.3% to 13.4%. On the other hand, the
farm credit share of the northern region has increased from 20.7% to 24.7%
and that of the southern region from 37.4% to 39.3%.
