Growth rate of Urdbean in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh state

Abstract

The research work was carried out to analyze the growth rates of area, production and productivity of urdbean in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh state. The study was conducted in Lailunga block of Raigarh district (C.G.) where urdbean is an important Pulse crop. Multistage stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select the district. Raigarh district was selected purposively as this district was having the highest area under urdbean crop in the state. A negative growth rate of 2.00 per cent with due statistical significance in area of urdbean has been found. It is of great concern to be noted that the production of urdbean crop declined by 2.00 per cent per annum over the period. Whereas in the case of productivity, the growth rate increased by 0.94 per cent annually. Similar trend was also found in state level data. In Chhattisgarh state the negative growth rate was reported in area and production both declined by 2.00 per cent per annum. Whereas, in the case of productivity, an annual growth rate by the tune of 0.36 per cent was reported over the period.