Author(s):

Komal Chawla, Pradeep Kumar Ganjeer and AK Singh

Abstract: Bastar Plateau is an agro-climatic zone of Chhattisgarh. In the present study, an attempt has made to study the predictive model and production function for area, production and productivity of Niger crop in Bastar Plateau agro-climatic zone of Chhattisgarh. The values of parameters of the estimated prediction model for area, production and productivity under Niger crop for Bastar Plateau; based on the observations recorded from 1999-2000 to 2010-11 were used for the study. The predictive model under study included a unique feature of structural periodic effect as a factor to capture the cyclic pattern, if any, along with trend effect in the time-series data. This periodic effect was estimated for area, production and productivity of the Niger. In this model, 3-year periodic cyclic effect is assumed along with annual effect working within it as a nested effect; Additionally, influences of area and productivity of the crops were also worked out to understand the impact of influencing factor (either area or productivity) on the production of Niger.

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