Status of Rice production in Jammu and Kashmir: An Economic Analysis

Abstract

Jammu and Kashmir is well acknowledged for both agricultural and horticultural, and has maintained a first-rate status in all the States of India, but at the equivalent time rice being a staple food for almost intact population is losing its status. Present study was based on the secondary data in which linear multiple regression model used to understand the impact of area and irrigation on the production of rice in Jammu and Kashmir, the data has revealed that both the variables has shown 85% of variation caused in the rice production Jammu and Kashmir, but at the same time area under the rice production in Jammu and Kashmir is declining as there is continuously land diversion taking place from rice to horticultural one as a result every year government has to import at a large scale from the central pool.