An analysis of growth rate performance of oilseed crops in Karnataka state

The present study was to analyse growth in area, production and productivity of oilseed crops in the Karnataka state for the period 2000–01 to 2014–15. The data required for the study were collected from secondary sources. For analyzing the data growth rate and coefficient of variation analyses were employed. The study found that out of nine oilseed crops grown in the state soybean was the only crop that showed positive growth rate in area and productivity to the extent of 10.50 and 12.36 per cent respectively whereas all rest of the crops showed negative growth. The highest negative growth was observed in case of Niger seed crop (−7.83%), the highest negative growth rate of productivity in linseed (−7.00%) and highest negative growth rate of production in case of Niger seed (3.22%) crops.