Growth and decomposition analysis of chickpea production in India

Abstract

Chickpea is an important pulse crop grown and consumed all over the world, especially in the Afro-Asian countries. It is also one of the major pulse crops cultivated and consumed in India and also known as Bengal Gram. In India, chickpea accounts for about 45% of total pulses production. India is also the major chickpea producing country as it contributes towards 69% of total world chickpea production. Chickpea production in the country has gone up from 3.65 to 9.38 million tones during 1950-51 and 2016-17, registering a modest growth. During the period while the area has also gone up from 7.57 to 9.63 million ha, the yield has steadily increased from 482 to 974 kg/ha. The present data on production scene could be broadly partitioned into seven decades in order to demonstrate the trend and growth of chickepea production in the country. The growth rates for production and yield of the crop were found to be positive while for area, it was marginaly negative. The yield effect has a greater say in chickpea during each decade separately except ninties. Overall production has increased mainly due to the yield effect.