Evaluating the Efficiency of Kharif Crops by Productivity Indices in Chhattisgarh State, India

Abstract

The present study is aimed to evaluate all the districts of Chhattisgarh based on their relative yield and productivity. The regions were differentiated at the district level according to their crop production efficiency. There was total 5 major kharif crops selected for the evaluation of efficiency zoning viz., rice, red gram, maize, groundnut and soybean. Area and production data collected from the Directorate of Agriculture for a period of twenty years (2000-01 to 2019-20) period. From the result it can be suggested that no crop was recorded under the criteria of efficient and highly stable productivity. But for crops like red gram, Bastar region recorded a zonation of potentially efficient crops with high unstable productivity whereas districts like Baloda bazar, Dhamtari, Gariaband, Mahasamund and Raipur fell in inefficient zone with low productivity.  Another crop like rice result showed  that only two districts namely Jashpur and Kabirdham touched the criteria of inefficient and low productivity and districts like Balod, Bijapur, Dhamatari, Kanker, Mungeli, Sukma and Janjgir-Champa fall under potentially efficient districts with high unstable productivity. For maize it has been observed that districts like Balrampur, Bastar, Bijapur, Dantewada, Dhamtari, Janjgir Champa, Kondagaon, Narayanpur, Sukma come under the criteria of potentially efficient zone with high unstable productivity Same result was also obtained for groundnut, very few districts like Rajnandgaon, Kondagaon, Kabirdham recorded with potentially efficient with high unstable productivity. In the case of Soybean the result obtained is that districts like Baloda Bazar, Balrampur, Bastar, Bijapur, Dantewada, Gariyaband, Janjgir-Champa, Kanker, Kondagaon, Mungeli, Narayanpur, Raipur, Sukma come under potentially efficient zone with high unstable productivity. From the above analysis it can be concluded that the districts with potentially efficient and high unstable productivity can be recommended with the continuous streamlining of technologies and promotion for that crop. The area recorded with low productivity and inefficiency should be identified with their proper reasoning behind it.