Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai-625 104, Tamil Nadu, India
This study analyzed the supply response of maize in Dindigul District of Tamil Nadu. The data regarding price and nonprice factors (area, yield, rainfall) were collected from the season and crop report of Tamil Nadu for the period of about 21 years (1991–2011). Nerlovian Partial Adjustment Model was used to analyze the supply response. In the acreage response model, lag maize area and lag maize price were found to be positively 1 per cent and 5 per cent significant with the current maize acreagerespectively. If lag maizearea and lag maizeprice is increased byone per cent, it will lead to anincrease of about 0.59 per cent and 0.96 per cent of current maize acreage respectively. In the yield response model, lag maize yield and lag maize price were found to be significant with the current maize yield. In the production response model, lag own price was found to be significant with the current maize production.
Area response model, Maize, Nerlovian Partial Adjustment model, Production response model, Yield response model
