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Table 1 Division of area
under study
Southern zone
Western zone
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Rajasthan
Gujarat
Maharashtra
Northern zone
Eastern zone
Himachal Pradesh
Haryana
Uttar Pradesh Punjab
Assam
Bihar
Orissa
Jharkhand
West Bengal
Central zone
Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh
Table 2 Division of time
period under study
S. No. Name of the period
Time period
1
Embryonic stage of Green Revolution 1960–1970
2
Mature stage of Green Revolution
1971–1990
3
Pre-trade spike period
1991–2000
4
Post-trade spike period
2001–2017
5.1 Organisation of the Study
The study area has been divided into five different zones based on their geographical
locations as follows in Table 1.
The Study period has been divided into five time periods as follows (Table 2).
6 Analysis and Results
6.1 Area, Production and Productivity of Chickpeas (All
India Level)
At all India level, total area under chickpeas cultivation witnessed countless fluctuations from 1950 to 2018. The overall trends in area, production and yield of chickpeas
during the study period shows varying trends. The CAGR of Area, Production and
Yield of chickpeas is given in Table 3.
During the decades of 1950s, growth in production of chickpeas was very high
led by both increase in area as well as yield. In the event of post-independence, lot of
uncultivated area was brought under cultivation that led to rapid increase in area under
chickpea as well. Similarly, with the development work oriented towards agriculture