Trends of area, production and productivity of groundnut in different districts of Chhattisgarh

Abstract

The time trend analysis of the area of groundnut is positively and significantly increasing in all districts due to increasing irrigation facilities and motivating the farmer for use of low cost input technology for groundnut crop under Entisol soil in Raipur, Durg, Rajnandgaon, Bilaspur districts and Vertisol soil in Surguja and Raigarh district. But it is important to note that groundnut area in the later period of the study is sharply increasing. The production and productivity pattern of groundnut is positively and significantly increasing due to increased area in these districts including Raipur, Durg, Rajnandgaon, Bilaspur, Raigarh and Surguja due to increased fertilizer and pesticide consumption by the farmer and introduction of high yielding variety (HYP).