Instability of Total Pulses in India

Abstract

India’s agricultural sector witness many reforms which had entirely changed the cropping pattern of agriculture. In terms of production and productivity reforms were complimentary for all the crops but when comes to stability it had adverse effect. Some of crops like wheat and rice are more stable whereas, pulses and wholegrain are having higher instability. This study examines the instability in area, yield and production for pulses at national level as well as main producing states. The paper used secondary data from 1961 to 2019, and instability measured through coefficient of variation. The results show that Maharashtra had highest instability in area, production and yield of total pulses although Uttar Pradesh had lowest.