STATUS OF GROUNDNUT PRODUCTIVITY OVER TAMIL NADU

S.ARUL PRASAD¹, N. MARAGATHAM²*, N.K. PRABHAKARAN³, G.A. DHEEBAKARAN⁴, K.P. RAGUNATHAN^5
1Agro Climate Research Centre, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
²Professor and Head, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
³Professor and Head, Agricultural Research Station, Bhavanisagar, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
⁴Agro Climate Research Centre, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
⁵Department of Remote sensing & GIS, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
* Corresponding Author : nmaragatham@gmail.com

Received : 02-05-2019     Accepted : 12-05-2019     Published : 15-05-2019
Volume : 11     Issue : 9       Pages : 8391 - 8396
Int J Agr Sci 11.9 (2019):8391-8396

Keywords : Enyedi’s method, Productivity Index, Groundnut productivity over Tamil Nadu
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Agro Climate Research Centre, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, India and Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

A study was carried out at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Agro Climate Research Centre, Coimbatore during the period of 2019 to identify the productivity index for groundnut in Tamil Nadu. The secondary data on production, area and productivity on groundnut crop was collected from Department of Economics and Statistics, Chennai and Statistical Hand book of Tamil Nadu for 15 years for period from 2000 to 2015. In this paper Enyedi’s method was used to calculate the productivity index. From the study it is found that in Tamil Nadu, seven districts were identified as low productivity index, sixteen district comes under moderate productivity index and nine district has high productivity index. The rainfall deviation on groundnut growth rate were correlated and the result shows there is liner influence of rainfall on groundnut growth rat.

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