AN ANALYSIS ON THE DISPARITY IN THE GROWTH OF COTTON AMONG THE INDIAN STATES

Abstract: The study attempted to examine the growth in area, production and productivity of cotton among the major cotton growing states of India. The objective of the study is accomplished with the help of secondary data considered for a period of 53 years from 1964-65 to 202016-17. The linear and compound growth rates were worked out. The magnitude of variability was calculated through the instability index. The contribution of area and productivity to increase in output was worked out by using decomposition analysis. From study it is observed that during the Period II, the area has increased in a majority of the states of India while the output and yield of cotton has increased in all the states. The increase in yield of cotton is far higher in all the cotton growing states. This is due to the adopting of Bt cotton in all the states.