Trends in area, production and productivity of rice crop of Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

The present study is based on secondary data collected from Sankhiki Patrika published by Uttar Pradesh Government and available on web-site http://updes.up.nic.in/spatrika/spatrika.htm. the data collected from 1994-1995 to 2014-15 and used the moving 3-yearly average, 5-yaerly moving average and percent change with graphical presentations of Area, Production, and Productivity of Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh. The graphical presented in the graph equations along with R2 for 3 Models of each variable such as Linear, Exponential and Coefficient of Variation declined from 21.27% to 15.54% due to smoothing by Moving Average.