Economic analysis of growth and instability of rice production in Telangana state

The study has been taken up with the objective of investigating the trends, pattern of growth and the extent of instability in area, production and productivity of rice crop in Telangana state over a period of sixty years from 1959-60 to 2018-19. Compound Growth Rate and Coefficient of Variation were used to calculate annual growth rate and instability. The districts were classified under different productivity groups and contribution of these districts to the states rice production was calculated. The area, production and productivity of rice in this period increased by 76,406 and 184 per cent respectively. During study period, many of the districts moved from very low to high productivity group. During 2016-2019, 48 and 41 per cent of rice area was under high and high-medium productivity groups respectively and contributed about 52 and 39 per cent of the total rice production in the state. Instability was higher in production and area, than in productivity.