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Growth and instability in area, production and productivity of major crops in Haryana vis-à-vis India

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Title Growth and instability in area, production and productivity of major crops in Haryana vis-à-vis India
 
Creator Moro Seidu
 
Contributor Kundu, K.K.
 
Subject Livestock, Composting, Sexual reproduction, Harvesters, Coir, Markets, Research methods, Irrigation, Wastes, Storage structures
 
Description Haryana remains one of the food baskets in India and so is India in the world. The continuous reliance
on these economies in terms of food production will depend on improving the production, productivity
and the sustainability levels of the different subsectors of agriculture. However, attempts to boost
agricultural production via the crop subsector have remained directionless and planless. This is because
the crop subsector is continuously gradually undergoing changes which directly affect the economic
performance (area, production and productivity) and predictability of the crop sector. Thus the actual
state and level of the changes (trends, growth rate, fluctuations) affecting the economic performance of
the crops is largely unknown. Therefore decisive approaches of strategically improving the economic
performance of the crop sector remain partly inconclusive, unknown and characterized by mixed
feelings and doubt. The study therefore, estimated the trend, growth and instability in area , production
and productivity of major crops (wheat, paddy, cotton, pearl millet, rapeseed & mustard and sugarcane)
in Haryana vis-à-vis India considering the time period 1966-67 to 2013-14, division of the entire
periods into five different sub periods and the periods of pre and post reform periods. The effect of
changes in area on production levels was also studied. Secondary and time series data were collected
and analysed using semi-log linear function, kinked exponential growth model, Cuddy Della Valle
Instability index and Boyce’s detrend measure of instability as well as simple linear model. The study
identified a significant increased trends and growth in the economic performance of all the major field
crops in the two study areas in the entire study period. However, an exception (decreased trend and
growth) was noticed in the area of harvest of pearl millet and sugarcane for both Haryana and India.
Moreover, the growth rates of economic performances of the crops were mostly higher in Haryana than
in India for almost all the crops except sugarcane.The study also identified that in the five sub periods,
Period II showed the greatest significant effect on the performance on the crops while Period V
exhibited the least in both study areas where that of Haryana was greater than that of India. The study
further isolated that, the significant trends and growth in the area of harvest and production were higher
the in pre reform era than the post reform era except that of and pearl millet for both periods. However
the growth rate of productivity was higher in pre reform era for wheat, paddy, oilseeds (Haryana) and
sugarcane (India) relative to the post reform era in both study areas unless otherwise indicated in
parenthesis. The reverse was the case for cotton, pearl millet, oilseeds (India) and sugarcane (Haryana).
The study confirmed high instability in the economic performance of all the crops both in Haryana and
India in the entire study period. The study established that in the five sub periods instability levels of
the economic performance of the crops declined except in some few instances such as that of pearl
millet in Haryana specifically in Period II and cotton and rapeseed & mustard in Period III in both
study areas. The study also juxtaposed a declined in instability of the economic performance of all the
crops in the pre and post reform era at state and national level excluding the area of harvest of rapeseed
& mustard in the pre reform period of India. The study therefore recommends that policies should be
directed to minimize area variability and yield stabilization policies should be strengthen to reduce
production variability in the major crops.
 
Date 2016-10-22T11:45:38Z
2016-10-22T11:45:38Z
2016
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/81380
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU