All India Compound Growth Rate of Principal Crops

Handbook of Statistics : Section-'B'

Table-17 :

All India Compound Growth Rates of Area, Production and Yield of Principal Crops
during the decades of eighties and nineties.

Growth Rates in Area, Production and Yield as %age

Base T.E. 1981-82 = 100

		1980-81 ~ 1998-99*
SL	Crops	Area	Production	Yield
1.	Rice	0.56	3.01	2.43
2.	Wheat	0.90	3.56	2.64
3.	Jowar	-2.77	1.25	1.56
4.	Bajra	-1.12	1.87	3.02
5.	Maize	0.33	2.72	2.39
6.	Ragi	-2.47	0.37	2.16
7.	Small Millets	-5.55	4.63	0.97
8.	Barley	-4.50	1.66	2.97
9.	Coarse Cereals	-2.01	0.45	2.29
10.	Total Cereals	-0.27	2.76	2.49
11.	Gram	0.13	1.43	1.29
12.	Tur	0.99	0.46	0.52
13.	Other Pulses	-0.50	1.06	1.57
14.	Total Pulses	-0.08	1.13	1.04
	Total Foodgrains	-0.23	2.56	2.32

1979-80 ~ 1989-90
Area	Production	Yield
0.45	4.29	3.82
0.57	4.24	3.65
-0.97	0.02	0.96
-0.61	1.43	2.06
-0.07	2.66	2.74
-1.28	0.36	0.93
-4.19	2.77	1.49
-5.82	2.21	3.83
-1.19	0.74	1.84
-0.16	3.63	3.43
-1.08	0.87	1.97
2.43	3.54	1.08
0.23	4.19	3.95
0.15	2.78	2.63
-0.11	3.54	3.33

1989-90 ~ 1998-99*
Area	Production	Yield
0.49	1.70	1.21
1.64	3.64	1.96
-3.85	-3.74	0.10
-1.42	1.65	3.11
0.66	2.11	1.44
-3.18	-0.76	2.49
-5.84	-6.05	0.22
-2.58	-0.24	2.40
-2.36	-0.48	1.63
-0.17	1.94	1.52
2.38	4.47	2.03
-0.69	-0.53	0.16
-1.53	-1.85	0.32
-0.22	0.75	0.65
-0.18	1.80	1.42

*	:	Provisional for Non-Foodgrains and all Crops
Source	:	Agricultural Statistics at a Glance - 2000, Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India, New Delhi, April-2000.