International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 5
First page : ( 132) Last page : ( 143)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Trends in Paddy Production in Andhrapradesh

Pasala Srinivasa Rao*

* Assistant Professor, G.V.P. College for Degree and P.G. Courses(A), Visakhapatnam

Online published on 28 July, 2016.

Abstract

Agriculture has long history of more than 5000 years and it has a backbone of Indian economy, mainly because of its large share of workforce employed and National Income in the country. But now less than 15 percent of India's national income comes from agriculture and close to 60 percent of India's labour force lives off agriculture. There is a little surprise in the fact that India's rural population leads impoverished lives. Even though Government of India and other state Governments trying to improve the agriculture sector through different programmes and policies, the production and productivity is increasing, but the growth rate is very meagre compare to other sectors. This is because mainly lack of financial assistance, lack of infrastructural facilities, land transformation, usage of traditional methods, negligence on small farmers and marginal farmers across the country. The focus of the paper is to examine the changes and instability in area, production and productivity of paddy in Andhra Pradesh (Newly carved state of Andhra Pradesh) based on time series data during 1994–95 to 2013–14. The study found that area, production and productivity has decreased during the study period. The compound growth rates of area, production and yield of paddy over the period shows positively significant. The study also confirms the magnitude of variability in production of paddy. The changes in area and productivity both was responsible for low variability in paddy of Andhra Pradesh. The percentage change over the years for area, production and productivity noted negative in the recent years in the study period. Instability in production is high in paddy crop during the study period. The yield effects the growth of production in paddy in Andhra Pradesh.

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Keywords

Change and instability, Compound Growth Rate, Decomposition Analysis.

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