“…Assessments of state-specific agricultural issues and policies emphasise the importance for agricultural development of improvements in irrigation, electricity supply (including solar), roads, rice varieties, crop and livestock diversification, drought proofing, marketing and procurement, land leasing, and downstream cold storage and food processing facilities (Verma et al, 2017;Hoda et al, 2017a;Hoda et al, 2017b;. The priority put on any single one of these subjects depends on the decision of the state government.…”