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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Karnataka state has a typical composition having a large share of its area under highly diversified agricultural crops, higher growth in agriculture assumes great importance and is a matter of concern for policy planners and research scholars in recent times. The analysis of growth is usually used to find out the trend of a particular variable over a period of time and used for making policy decisions. The growth in the area, production and productivity of food grains in Karnataka was estimated using the compound annual growth rate analysis. The necessary secondary data were collected for a period of 25 years from 1990-91 to 2014-15. Growth rates showed a significant positive growth in case of both cereals and pulses. In case of cereals, the highest positive CAGR was observed in maize area and production. Paddy and sorghum were found to be non-significant for growth of area, production and productivity. Among the pulses, chickpea and pigeonpea exhibited a significant positive growth rate in case of area, production and productivity. Field bean showed significant positive growth in case of production and productivity. Horse gram, black gram and green gram were found to be non-significant.