The state of Odisha having an agrarian based economy depends largely on agriculture for the livelihood of its population. Pulses are important commodity group of crops that provides high quality protein complementing cereal proteins for predominantly substantial vegetatarian population of the country. Pulses are grown in all the 30 districts of Odisha. Major pulses grown in Odisha are black gram, green gram, arhar, cowpea chickpea etc. A study on the compound growth rate and variability of area, yield and production of pulses for kharif season in the districts of Odisha and the state as a whole. has been attempted. Then the districts of Odisha are ranked on the basis of decreasing compound growth rate and increasing instability index of area, yield and production of kharif pulses. The performance of area and yield of kharif pulses is found to be quite well which leads to good performance in production. To get a good increment in growth rate of area and yield of kharif pulses along with low degree of instability, more area should be brought under pulses during kharif season if possible and improved cultivation practices must be adopted.

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