An Economic Analysis of Changes in Cropping Pattern in Karnataka
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An Economic Analysis of Changes in Cropping Pattern in Karnataka
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Ahmad Fahim Rahimi
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H. Basavaraju
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Agricultural Economics
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The understanding of changes in cropping pattern over the years is necessary to get better returns, decision on optimal locations and capacities of new agro-based plants and balancing of the production. The study aimed at analyzing the changes in cropping pattern in Karnataka. The necessary secondary data were collected for a period of 30 years from 1979-80 to 2008-09. Tabular analysis, Growth rate, Concordance analysis and Multiple linear regression analysis were employed to analyze various aspects of the changes in cropping pattern. The cereals and minor millets covered larger proportion of the gross cropped area followed by oilseeds. Pulses stood third in terms of area share out of gross cropped area followed by commercial crops. Plantation, condiments and spices, fruits and vegetables also occupied a considerable share in gross cropped area over the periods. Barring cereals and minor millets and commercial crops most of the crop categories registered a positive annual growth in area during the study period. Belgaum, Bellary, Bijapur, Chitradurga, Dharwad, Gulbarga, Mysore, Raichur, Shimoga and Tumkur were the major oilseeds and pulses growing districts. Area under soybean, maize, bengal gram, paddy, sugarcane, onion and green gram has increased over the year while that of jowar, horse gram, linseed, safflower, sweet potato and coriander has considerably declined in state. Kharif crops occupied major area followed by rabi crops. The summer crops occupied considerable area in all the districts. Net cropped area showed decreasing trend while cropping intensity has increased in the state and in all the districts. The concordance coefficients revealed that the area share of crops in the study period were not in agreement with each other. Multiple regression analysis revealed that net and gross irrigated area, area under high yielding varieties, annual rainfall and land holdings were the factors responsible for the changes in cropping pattern. |
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Date |
2016-11-14T16:40:11Z
2016-11-14T16:40:11Z 2012 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/85482
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application/pdf
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UAS, Dharwad
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