1Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Navgaon, Jobner-303 328, Rajasthan, India.
2Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara-144 411, Punjab, India.
3Amity Institute of Organic Agriculture, Amity University, Noida-201 313, Uttar Pradesh, India.
4Agricultural Extension, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Gyalshing-737 111, West Sikkim, India.
5Deptartment of Extension Education, Manoharbhai Patel College of Agriculture, Hiratola-441 801, Maharashtra, India.
*Corresponding Author: Devendra Kumar Verma, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Sri Karan Narendra Agriculture University, Navgaon, Jobner-303 328, Rajasthan, India. Email: devendraecon2407@gmail.com
Productivity, as a source of growth has been a significant premise of analytical investigation in economics all along, however it gained an empirical momentum in the recent years only and has become a necessary index to growth. Present paper estimates growth rate of area, production and productivity of food grain and oilseed crops in Rajasthan.
To analyse growth performance of food grain and oilseed crops Rajasthan time series, data on area, production and yield were collected from 1976–77 to 2018–19. The time-series data were collected on area, production and yield of selected crops from the Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES), Directorate of Agriculture (DOA) and Rajasthan State Agriculture Department. The compound growth rates (CGRs) of area, production and productivity of selected crops in Rajasthan were calculated using the exponential function.
The study revealed that production, productivity and area of total food grains was recorded a positive and highly significant annual growth at the rate of 3.18%, 2.19% 0.63% per annum, respectively. The production, productivity and area of total oilseed was observed a positive and highly significant annual growth rate of 7.63%, 2.07% and 4.27% per annum, respectively. The area under barley, gram and sesamum reduced during the study period. Therefore, the technological support through the varietal improvement and extension support is required.
Area, Crops, Growth, Production, Productivity
