Changing spatial pattern, trend and regional imbalances in pulse production in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India (original) (raw)

Area, Output and Productivity of Pulses in India

Social Science Journal for Advanced Research

India’s produce of cereal has been growing year by year and its one of the top manufacturers of different crops like rice, wheat, pulses, sugarcane and cotton. In 2019 India’s pulses production is 23.15 million tonnes which contribute about 24 percent of world pulses output. In the present paper area, output and productivity of pulses in India are investigated. The study is descriptive in nature and used secondary data from different government publications. The paper concludes that the increase in output is much higher than the area of pulses, whereas total pulses production is always affected by the size of holding.

A Profile of Pulses Production in India: Facts, Trends and Opportunities

2002

complement cereals in both production and consumption. In the production process, pulses improve soil fertility, require less water than cereals and their rotation with cereals controls diseases and pests. On the consumption side, these are relatively cheaper sources of protein. Despite their importance, the per capita availability of pulses has reduced to almost half from about 60 gm/day in 1950-51 to 26 gm/day in 2000-01 as against the recommendation (43 gm/day) of the Indian Council of Medical Research. Such a trend was due to dismal production performance of pulses in comparison to population growth. With the acute shortfall in supply, the country was compelled to import pulses, which further restricted the growth of pulses production. The average import of pulses was 870 thousand tonnes per annum during the last five years ending 2001, with an extreme of 2,177 thousand tonnes in 2001-02. In value terms, it was approximately US$ 270 million for the former and a peak of US$ 886 million in 2001-02. Such a dismal scenario of pulses is attributed to the technological stagnation, supply side constraints, and unattendance to new niches for their production. These issues need to be assessed to raise their production. For this, it is prerequisite to diagnose the pulses economy to understand their performance temporally and spatially. The study is an attempt in this direction to (i) assess the historical pattern of pulses production in the country, (ii) identify key constraints in the production of pulses, and (iii) assess the prospects of and opportunities for pulses production in the country. The study postulated two hypotheses: (i) shortfall in domestic production of pulses led to new production niches, and (ii) technological stagnation resulted in poor performance of pulses in the country. METHODOLOGY The study is based on the state-level data which are mainly collated from secondary sources (Government of India, 2000 a and b; 2002). The historical performance of pulses has been assessed for all the major states. The study covered important pulses, which included chickpea, pigeonpea, blackgram, greengram and lentil. These pulses account for more than 80 per cent of total pulses area in the country. The study covered the last two decades from 1980-81 to 1999-2000. This

Changing Scenario of Pulses in India: An Analysis of its Growth and Instability in Eastern States

2017

Despite of deceleration in area and marginal rise in production due to higher productivity growth rate but gross decline in area and production is perceived to be a major threat towards future food and nutritional security of the country as well as the Eastern states. Framing strategies to overcome the present gloomy situation may be considered as a greatest ever challenge faced by policy makers as well as agricultural scientists. The strategies for stepping up domestic production must include development and adoption of modern technology including high yielding varieties, better monetary incentives to farmers to make pulses cultivation more remunerative than competitive crops, assured market which will motivate farmers to allocate more land for pulses cultivation. The minimum support price should be greater coordination with farm harvest price and market price. The Inputs constraints particularly quality seeds, fertilizers and lifesaving irrigation growth are not enough as compared to rice and wheat crops. Liberalized and subsidized import of pulses of India helps to meet demand-supply gaps, which have occurred because of stagnation in the area under cultivation, very slow growth in yield, poor increase in production and speedy increase in population. Ban on export and reexport of pulses make the closure of Indian pulses processing units. Problems of pulses economy can be solved with the increase the sources of production. Effective and continuous efforts are needed to increase the area under cultivation with better technological and logistic support.

Pulses Production in India: Trend and Decomposition Analysis

Pulses is a major source of protein for a huge section of India particularly vegetarian population. In the present study, an attempt has been made to analyze the trend in production of total pulses crop in India for the period 1950-51 to 2014-15, i.e. past six decades in India. The gross area under total pulses in India was in the range of 19-25 million ha per year over these six decades. The average production of total pulses was in the range of 8 million tonnes to 15 million tonnes per annum over the 6 decades. However, the yield of total pulses was increase over the year. The yield of total pulses was 400 kg/ha during 1950's which increase to above 700 kg/ha during 2014-15. The compound growth rate of yield over six decades was positive and significant while area and production are non-significant. The decomposition analysis shows that increase in production of pulses during the period 1995-2014 was mainly due to yield effect. Since the supply of resources especially land is limited in nature, productivity of pulses should be boosted up by adoption of improved technologies like hybrid pulses cultivation and various technique of production to meet the future increased demand.

Growth Rate of Pulses in Eastern Uttar Pradesh a Zone-wise Analysis

Economic Affairs, 2021

Attempts are made in this paper to investigate the trend of pulses in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, as well as their instability and non-linear model. This time series data on pulses pertains to the period 1980-1981 to 2014-15 and includes information on the area, production, and productivity of pulses. Pulses have had negative growth in terms of area, production, and productivity in all three zones of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, namely, the North Eastern plain zone, the Eastern plain zone, and the Vindhyan zone. Since 1980-81, there has been a rise in the area and output of pulses in the Vindhyan zone, as seen by the percentage change. The Eastern plain zone has the most stable pulse crop in terms of instability

Growth and instability in pulses : A spatiotemporal analysis in eastern India

2018

Pulses are not only vital ingredient of human diet but they are equally important to the health of humans and agricultural soils as well. The study revealed that the share of area and production of pulses in total food grains production has gone up. The area under total pulses in TE-2003 was worked out to be 7.52% of the total area under food grains in the region, which became almost, double, i.e. 14.48% in TE-2016.Production of pulses went up from 2.99% in TE-2003 to 6.22% in TE-2016 and productivity of pulses has also improved (635.01 Kg/ha to 910.68 Kg/ha) during study period. The Compound growth rates of area and production were found positive in all the states. Though there is a wide gap between consumption and production, on account of low productivity of pulses, they are not able to compete with profitability of cereal crops, thus resulting in decreased area.

Trends and growth rate analysis of pulses in Haryana vis-à-vis India

Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 2019

An attempt has been made in the paper to find out the growth and trends of area, production and productivity of pulses in Haryana vis-à-vis India. The secondary data for a period from 1970-71 to 201617 was taken for study. This shows that the growth trends of area in Haryana was negative. Maximum area under pulses was covered in 1971-72 while lowest area under pulses was in 2015-16. In case of production growth trends was also negative in Haryana. Maximum production under pulses was found in 2012-13 while lowest production was found in 2015-16. Compound growth rate or area and production during this period was -5.56 and -4.51 per cent, respectively i.e. declining in trend in pulses. Productivity growth trends was positive in Haryana. Compound growth rate (CGR) of productivity during this period was 0.64 per cent. But in case of India, the area, production and productivity trends are positive. CGR of production and productivity was 1.09 and 0.97 per cent in India. Similarly, in produ...

Changing Scenario of Pulses in India - An Analytical View

In India major five pulses chick pea, pigeon pea, green gram, black gram and lentil occupied 35, 16, 13, 12 and 7 percent of total legumes area contributing 48, 16,9, 7 and 6 percent pulses production~hi1e the other minor pulses contributed only 17 I percent in legumes area and 14 percent in pulses production. The annual compound growth of chickpea recorded the highest growth rate 4.61 percent in area, 6.32 percent in production and 1.64 percent in prdductivity during the 2000s decade while the growth I rates where lowest i.e.-1041,-0.81 and 0.61 percent respectively observed during 1980s decade. Pigeon pea recorded compound growth rate 2.30 percent in legumes area and 2.89 percent in pulses production but 0.56 percent in productivity only during 1980s followed hy,l.18, 2.05and 0.87 per cent in area production and productivity respectively during 1990s. In the case of lentil the highest growth rate was reported 5049 percent in area 1.99 percent in production and 3.43 percent in productivity during 1980s followed 1.~~~~2.~1

Daunting Situation of Pulses in India

ABSTRACT A.M.U. ALIGARH. From a situation where India had to import food grains for feeding its population in 1960s, the country has achieved self-sufficiency in producing rice and wheat. As far as pulses are concerned India is still too far to fulfill the mounting demand of pulses. 'Green Revolution' initiative in late 1960s resulted in rapid expansion of agricultural land and boost in agricultural production with the striking feature of double cropping. This revolution resulted in record grain output in 1970s. In case of pulses no promising measures had taken place for boosting pulse cultivation in the decades of 1960s and 1970s. However, in 1980s importance of pulses came under the ambit of mission programs and the production of pulses has increased by 34 per cent from 1980-81 to 1990-91. Further, in India ,1990s decade witnessed the problems such as regional imbalances, depletion of ground level water mainly in northern part, storage and distribution at state level due to giving much importance mainly to two crops paddy and wheat and neglecting other valuable crops such as coarse cereals and pulses which is low water resistant crops . Pulses contain a considerable amount of protein content that‟s why in India it is considered as poor man‟s meat as majority of population is vegetarian. The present paper tries to throw light on the importance of pulses cultivation in India and it also examines the pattern of growth in area, production and yield of pulses in India. It has also tried to find out the ways to explore the potential of pulses in major pulse producing states in order to expand its output. The time series data for the period 1950 -51 to 2011-12 regarding the area, production and yield of pulses has been used to calculate decadal growth rates, Coefficient of Variation and Coppock’s Instability Index (CII). KEYWORDS: Pulses Production, Growth Pattern and Instability Index.

Effect of area and yield on the production of pulses in India

The Pharma Innovation Journal, 2019

Study attempted to examine the effect of area, yield and interaction between area and yield on the production also called as decomposition of pulses. Data of more than 25 years collected, classified into Period Ⅰ, Period Ⅱ and Period Ⅲ along with these period overall period also taken into consideration and analyzed for pulses found that Period Ⅰ (1990-00) masoor showed negative effect by yield, gram arhar total pulses showed negative effect by area and except gram all other pulses showed negative interaction effect on production. Period Ⅱ where horse gram showed negative effect of yield, masoor showed negative effect of area and interaction effect on production of pulses. In Period Ⅲ where all pulses showed positive effect in yield, except gram and moong all other pulses showed negative effect of area and all pulses indicated negative interaction effect except gram on production. For overall period negative effect of yield indicated by horse gram, negative area and interaction effect by moong and uad. Over all study concluded that yield effect is higher than area effect fallowed by interaction effect in pulse production. Keywords: pulses, decomposition, interaction effect