The study has estimated the growth rates of pulses in Telangana and India based on secondary data collected for a period of 15 years from 2000–01 to 2014–15. The growth in the area, production and productivity of pulses has been estimated using the compound growth function. The study has revealed that area, production and productivity of pulses in India marked a significantly increasing trend during the study period. The country's import of pulses also increased at an annual compound growth rate of 9.4 per cent during this period. In Telangana, though the area under pulses has witnessed a significant negative growth (−3.0% CGR), because of significant increasing trend in productivity (4.2% CGR), the pulses production has recorded a significant positive trend with an annual growth rate of 1.1 per cent. However, production of pulses both at country level (17.13%) and Telangana state level (28.99%) has shown highest degree of instability compared to area and productivity during 2000–01 to 2014–15. Similarly, the import of pulses has also registered a significantly high degree of instability, i.e., 43.2 per cent of coefficient variation during the period of study, depending on fluctuations in the demand and supply of pulses.
Pulses, area, production, trade, import, instability, growth rate
