Growth Performance of Oilseeds Among Leading States in India

Abstract

The present study was conducted to estimate the growth & instability of major edible oilseeds production across major states in India. The time series secondary data on area, production and productivity of soybean, rapeseed, mustard and groundnut were collected for all the major states from the period 1995–96 to 2017–18. Statistical tools like compound growth rate for calculating annual growth rate and Cuddy-Della Valle Index for instability index were used. Results showed that the area and production of soybean in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra increased at a highly significant rate annually. Instability of area in both these states was found low. Production and productivity of rapeseed and mustard in Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh were found to be increased at highly significant annual growth rate but the area in Uttar Pradesh was declined at a highly significant rate per annum (−2.93%). Instability of area in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh was low and production instability was moderate in all four states whereas except Haryana, all three states showed low instability in productivity. In groundnut Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka showed a highly significant decline in the annual growth rate of area and production. Except for Rajasthan, all other five states showed low instability in the area under groundnut during the study period. Therefore, the study recommends adoption of site-specific scientific package of practices of the crop to avoid the prevailed instability.