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Trend analysis of production and yield of major crops over South Bengal, India during last six years

Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Geography, Egra S.S.B. College, West Bengal, India

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 9, Issue (3), Pages 7-13, July,14 (2020)

Abstract

This paper has analyzed the growth rate of production, yield and trend of cultivated area under traditional crops of Aman, Boro, Aus and Mustard seed over the West Bengal. A time series data on these crops were used for six years (2011-2017) along with their selected character. Data sets of consecutive period has been considered and collected from Bureau of Applied Economics and Statistics, Government of West Bengal. Slope coefficient of considered time series has been measured for both instantaneous growth rate and compound growth rate (Semi -log model) for area, production and dry yield. The results show that, the area under traditional paddy cultivation has decreased. While, the production and dry yield of these crops have increased during the considered period. Comparatively, the percentage of instantaneous growth as well as compound growth has increased for this period. It clearly indicates that, the production and yield have increased for paddy crop but the trend in area has decreased due to increase of Ravi crop variety.

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