Status of Rapeseed and Mustard crop in India: Trend and Decomposition Analysis

The study was conducted to examine the trends, variability and decomposition analysis of rapeseed and mustard crop in major growing states as well as in the India from 1992–93 to 2017–18. The compound growth rates have been estimated with the help of exponential function, variability has been computed by using technique of co-efficient of variation. The study concluded that positive and significant growth occurred in case of production (1.84%) and yield (1.86%) of rapeseed and mustard for India during the study period. Further, there persisted wide fluctuations in the growth of area, production and yield of rapeseed and mustard over the study period. The decomposition analysis suggested that for rapeseed-mustard yield effect was the major source of growth in Production, whereas area effect was found to be negative except for Rajasthan and Utter Pradesh. Thus, the study emphasized on increasing area under rapeseed-mustard oilseed crop in major growing states, dissemination of improved agricultural production technology among farming community for increasing production of these crops.