Trend analysis of finger millet in India: State-wise analysis

Abstract

The research entitled” Trend Analysis of Finger Millet in India: State-wise Analysis” was carried out with the objective to work on the state-wise trends of area, production and productivity of finger millet in India. The study was based on the secondary data of area, production and productivity of finger millet in India. For almost all the states the quintic function was best fitted, for all states of India. The R² was estimated in the range 0.40 to 0.98 for area, 0.40 to 0.93 for production and 0.26 to 0.92 for productivity. The Research and Development towards finger millet production has started paying despite the effort of different actors as yield has increased consistently over the recent years.