To Estimate The trend and growth rate of Area, Production and Productivity of Chickpea in dhar District of Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

The analysis of growth is usually used to estimate the trend and growth rate of area, production and productivity of chickpea in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh the agricultural situation in India has undergone a rapid change. Indian agriculture, long been viewed as a subsistence occupation and a way of life on the part of the peasant is now rapidly getting commercialized. Indian farmer has come to produce for the market rather than for domestic consumption. With the breakthrough in farm technology, now a days, agriculture has become increasingly capital-intensive interims of augmentation of productivity both land and human labour. Exports of agricultural products enabled us to import machinery and food grains. Chickpea, pigeon pea, moongbean, uradbean, lentil, and field pea are important pulses crop contributing 41.20 per cent, 19.11 per cent, 09 per cent, 13 per cent, 7 per cent and 5 per cent to the total production of pulses in the country (2016–17). Looking the importance of pulses the pulse is internal part of cropping system of most of the farmers, since years, based on the results of the study suitable measures have also been suggested.