Author(s):

Omprakash Maurya and Hemant Kumar

Abstract: Chickpea is an important pulse crop grown and consumed all over the world, especially in the Afro-Asian countries. It is also one of the major pulse crops cultivated and consumed in India and also known as Bengal gram. In India, chickpea accounts for about 45% of total pulses production. Similar to the case of other pulses, India is the major chikpea producing country and contributing for over 75% of total world chickpea production. The chickpea production in the country has gone up from 3.65 to 9.53 million tones between 1950-51 and 2013-14, registering a modest growth. During the period while the area has also gone up from 7.57 to 9.93 million ha, the yield has steadily increased from 482 kg/ha to 960. The present data were broadly partitioned into seven decades in order to demonstrate the trend of chickepea production in more convincing and simple manner. The compound growth rates of production and yield of chickpea were found positive and negative for area. However growth in yield was estimated positive after eighites. Overall there was positive growth rate of production and yield, and marginal negative growth in area. The yield effect has a greater say in chickpea each decades separately except ninties. The interaction of area and yield is not much. Overall the production is increased mainly due to area effect.

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