WDI Indicators for Agriculture

Is third world war is approaching ? no, but has started already. How? through  Economic war. A common people like me, now devote more time in pages having business news than a political news. How US budget has grown up each year compared to China or Vice-verse  and  What is economic growth rate of China, Japan , India etc this year; these are matter of our interest now. Even, I enjoy the war of Apple and Samsung; how Samsung pay for copyright case and how market of Apple has gone down compared to Samsung. I don't think I am alone to have such changes, but probably knowingly or unknowingly  most of us has felt this. Growing number of such news in newspaper and TV signifies my verse. 

War always needs weapon. Socio-Economic Strategies are new weapon for economic power gaining war. Some cases of religious issues, some cases of natural oil extraction issues, some cases of internet use and abuse issues, some cases of bilateral and multilateral relations and most importantly some cases of trade,business promotion and market share are weapons. All of the nation and particularly top economy of the world in one hand is working for own economy gaining and in other hand for hindering opponents to gain.

In this scenario, many Indexes and statistics published regularly plays important role to inform them about status of own nation as well as opponents. UNDP uses HDI to compare and highlight the status of human development whereas World Bank uses WDI  to highlight the status of a nation in perspective of Development status. Recently World bank has published it's report for year 2013. All together 331 different development indicators under 18 different sub-headings of development  for 214 nation of the world is given by the report. 

Under the Sub-heading of Agriculture and Rural development , there are 32 indicators to show the development status of a nation in perspective of agriculture and rural development.

Nepalese over-all indicators got very low value, categorizing the nation as a whole in " Low income nation" group. Its very contradictory to have two third of population employed in agriculture and to have more than twenty percent of population  using 70 percent of their income Just for food.

Agriculture & Rural Development

Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land)	Fertilizer consumption (kilograms per hectare of arable land)
Agricultural land (% of land area)	Fertilizer consumption (% of fertilizer production)
Agricultural land (sq. km)	Food production index (2004-2006 = 100)
Agricultural machinery, tractors	Forest area (% of land area)
Agricultural machinery, tractors per 100 sq. km of arable land	Forest area (sq. km)
Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)	Improved water source, rural (% of rural population with access)
Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports)	Land area (sq. km)
Agriculture, value added (% of GDP)	Land under cereal production (hectares)
Agriculture value added per worker (constant 2000 US$)	Livestock production index (2004-2006 = 100)
Arable land (hectares)	Permanent cropland (% of land area)
Arable land (hectares per person)	Poverty gap at rural poverty line (%)
Arable land (% of land area)	Poverty headcount ratio at rural poverty line (% of rural population)
Average precipitation in depth (mm per year)	Rural population
Cereal yield (kg per hectare)	Rural population growth (annual %)
Crop production index (2004-2006 = 100)	Rural population (% of total population)
Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)	Surface area (sq. km)