Growth, Instability and Hazell’s Decomposition Analysis of Apple: A District-wise Study of Himachal Pradesh

The present study has made an attempt to estimate the sources of growth and instability of apple production in various districts of Himachal Pradesh using Hazell’s decomposition model as our state has shown tremendous growth in area as well as production in last decades.

For analysis, secondary data on area, production and yield has been used and the study period for CAGR, instability indices and decomposition analysis had divided into two triennium periods i.e. Period-I (1974-77 to 1996–99) and Period-II (1999-02 to 2020–23).

it was revealed that during the overall period, Sirmaur had the highest value of CAGR (27.70%) in apple production followed by Spiti (10.30%) and Mandi and main reason for this increasing trend was the increase of the apple area and climatically adaptable varieties as apple required chilling hours which were fulfilling in these districts. In Shimla, which had the highest area and production of apple in the state, there was a decline in the CAGR of apple production during the overall period (-3.70%).