1Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, S.V. University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
2Professor & Registrar, S.V. University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
Online published on 11 January, 2021.
Production of rice had gone up from around 21 million tonnes to 31 million tonnes between 1950-51 and 1965-66. In the green revolution period, production increased substantially and stood had 99 million tonnes by 2008-09. The performance of the wheat was much better than that of rice as wheat production rose from a mere 6 million tonnes to 80 million tonnes during the period from 1950-51 to 2008-09. Cereals as also foodgrains have shown better performance during the green revolution period. The period under study has been divided into four periods, viz. Pre-Green Revolution Period (1949-50 to 1965-66), Green Revolution Phase-I (1966-67 to 1980-81), Green Revolution Phase-II (1981-82 to 1990-91) and Green Revolution Phase-III (1990-91 to 2008-09). The last period is also known as economic reforms period or liberalization period. To understand the overall trend, overall period from (1949-50 to 2008-09), is also taken for the study. The worked out production compound growth rates for the overall period for crops like wheat, sugarcane, cereals, rice, food grains and groundnut where, 4.78, 3.12,2.75, 2.59, 2.50 and 1.20 respectively.
Growth, Trend, Long-Run Modal, Rice Wheat, Cereals, Food Grains, Groundnut And Sugarcane
