Growth Patterns of Total Pulses Production in India

Pulses are an important food crops in the country. The crop supplied a major part of food security in the country. We have estimated the state wise production growth rates of total pulses in India during 1980-81to 2015-16. We have selected 15 agriculturally developed states for our research study. The secondary data on total pulses production are collected from the Reserve Bank of India, Different issues of Statistical Abstract of India (BAES). We have applied stochastic trend i.e., either TSP or DSP of non-stationary series for checking the production growth rates of total pulses in the country. In the case of stationary series, we have applied deterministic trend i.e., kinked exponential trend equation for estimating the production growth rates of total pulses in the country during the study period from 1980-81 to 2015-16. The production growth rates in total pulses are significantly positive with low value in a few states but most of the states in the country experienced either negative or no growth in this production over the whole study period. But in the case of sub-period growth rates, we observed that the production growth rates of total pulses in most of states had been either significantly negative or insignificant in the third or fourth sub-period as compared to the other sub-periods in the country.

Saddam Hossain Mondal1 and Ayanangshu Sarkar2 Click here to download file

Research Article | Published online : 08-May-2024