J. C. Weaver’s crop combination method is one of the simplest and the most objective techniques to delineate agricultural regions. What is Crop Combination Crop combination refers to the most dominant group of crops which are being cultivated in a region for a particular time period (mostly year). The basic idea of Weaver’s method is … Read more
Human Development Index (HDI) is an index developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of UNO to measure the overall development of countries. However, this index ignores the socio-economic inequalities within a country. Therefore, UNDP came up with a new method to calculate HDI that is Inequality Adjusted HDI (IHDI). IHDI has been calculated … Read more
Human Development Index (HDI) is an index developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of UNO to measure the overall development among the countries, states or communities of this world. This index is based on the work of Mehbub Ul Haq and Amartya Sen. There are three key indicator of HDI i.e. Health, Education … Read more
Population Density is a quantitative measure that presents a ratio between the population of a region and its corresponding total geographical area. Researchers use population density for comparative studies in demography or population study. Further, the population density also helps us to understand the population-resource relationship. It assists in getting a better understanding of the … Read more
Net Sown Area and Gross Cropped Area are two concepts which are used repeatedly to indicate the intensity of land use in agricultural sector. What is Net Sown Area? It is total area which is cultivated in an agricultural year. For instance, assume that the total land in a country is 100²Kms and 45²Kms. out … Read more
Measuring inequality is key to formation of policy for equitable distribution of benefits of economic growth to people. Sopher’s Index is a method which measures inter-personal inequality between people and regions. What is Sopher’s Index? It is used to calculate inter-personal disparity between two groups of people and regions. Need for Log scale: This index … Read more