Abstract
The time series data on area, production and productivity of groundnut crop for 31 years were collected for major groundnut growing districts and Gujarat state for the period 1985-86 to 2015-16 from Directorate of Agriculture, Gandhinagar, Gujarat State. The entire study period was divided into two sub-periods on the basis of introduction of Bt- cotton as pre Bt-cottoni.e.period I (1985-1986 to 2001-2002) and post Bt- cottoni.e.period II (2002-2003 to 2015-2016).Instability in the area, production and productivity of groundnut was analyzed using the Cuddy Della Valle Index (CDVI).The results revealed that the majority of the districts showed medium level of variability for area except Ahmedabad, Banaskantha, Kheda and Surat (High variability), Rajkot (Low variability), all the districts showed high level of variability for production and high level of variability for productivity except Kheda, Surat and Surendranagar which showed medium level of variability.
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