Sources of Growth in Rice Production in India: State Wise Component Analysis

The present study was taken up to estimate the influence of technology and policy on Rice production in India and its major states with objectives; measuring the magnitude of growth, estimating the instability and assessing the influence of technology and policy factors on Rice production in different states. The time series data of 25 years for the period 1990–91 to 2014–15, on area, production and yield of paddy for different states were collected from the website http://eands.dacnet.nic.in. Area and Yield variables were taken as proxy for policy and technology factors respectively. Analytical tools like Compound Growth Rate (CGR), Coefficient of Variation (C.V) and Component Analysis were employed to achieve the objectives. Results reveal that growth and instability in production were more contributed by yield than area. This indicates that growth in production should come from yield attributing factors like development of High Yielding farming system of specific varieties and improvement in input use efficiency. Immediate concern is about the transfer of technology know-how to farmer's do-how.