The paper has looked into the trends in growth and instability and the share of area and yield in production of major pulses such as gram, moong, moth and urad in Rajasthan based on secondary data for the period 199495 to 2014–15. The entire period was sub-divided into two periods, viz. Period I (1994–95 to 2004–05) and Period II (2005–06 to 2014–15). The component analysis model was used for decomposition analysis. The study has found growth rates in area, production and productivity to be positive during the overall period. The decomposition analysis has shown that among the three effects, viz. area effect, yield effect and interaction effect, the area effect contributed more to the change in pulses production during Period I, whereas the yield effect contributed more during Period II as well as overall period. The decomposition analysis has also revealed that the growth in production of total pulses in all the three periods was mainly due to yield effect contributing 99 per cent in Period I, 107 per cent in Period II and 125 per cent in overall period. The study has emphasized on the need to increase the pulses production through technological intervention to meet their growing demand in the country.
Growth, instability, pulses, decomposition
