Growth performance and potential of sugarcane production and sugar export

Agriculture is one of the most important sectors of the Indian economy which occupied about 43% of geographical area and contributes about 14% of the GDP. India is one among the major sugar producers of the world by producing 300 million tonnes of cane per year. Uttar Pradesh is one of among the major sugarcane producing state of the country. These background information shows the importance of the crop and trend analysis of sugarcane production productivity and area become important. The analysis based on secondary data for twenty years included the measurement of annual growth rate, compound growth rate, coefficient of variation in area, production and productivity of sugarcane. The study considered the data related with five major cane producing states i.e. Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. The result of the study shows that growth rate and instability were directly related in the area, production and productivity of sugarcane.