Agricultural Science Digest
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue: 2

Growth Analysis of Area, Production and Productivity of Maize in Nagaland

  • Author:
  • D.S. Dhakre, Amod Sharma
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 142 to 147

Department of Agricultural Economics SASRD, Nagaland University, Campus Medziphema, Nagaland – 797 160, India.

Abstract

Maximum decrease in area under maize crop was (−) 16.02% found in the year 1999–2000 and maximum increase in area under maize crop was 30.23% in the year 2000–01, where as maximum increase in production and productivity of maize crop in Nagaland was 103.05% in the year 1988–89 and 101.26% in the 1988–89 respectively Among area, production and productivity of maize the instability was highest for the production. Growth rates were significant at 1% level of significance.

Keywords

Maize, Index number, Growth rate, Instability index