Associate Professor & Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural Sciences & Rural Development, Nagaland University, Medziphema, Nagaland. Email: hodaec_sasrd@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 27 November, 2012.
The present study was undertaken to study the trends of area, production and productivity of fruit crops in the Nagaland state. The study was based on secondary data from 1992–93 to 2011–12. The data was collected from several government publications and web site. To analyze the trend of area, production and productivity of fruit crops in the Nagaland state, the linear, quadratic and exponential functional forms were used. To fit the trend, quadratic functional form was used due to its higher R2 value as compared to other two forms. Besides these, compound growth rate, coefficient of variation and instability index was also estimated. The effects of area, productivity and their interaction towards increasing production were also estimated in the present study. The growing of fruit crops was not risky in the Nagaland state as revealed by the lower coefficient of variation. The value of coefficients of variation (CV) of area, production and productivity of fruit crops were less than 199.55%. The instability indices for area, production and productivity for fruit crops in the Nagaland state were positive and thereby indicating less risk for growing major fruit crops in the state, except few fruit fruits. The increase in production is due to increase in area as well as interaction of area and productivity of fruit crops in the state. This may be due to the adoption of high yield variety seed of major fruit crops and adoption of improved methods by the farming community during last decade.
Area, Production, Productivity, Fruit crops, Nagaland State
