Empirical Analysis of Indian Rainfall and Rice Productivity

Abstract

Abstract

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the rice production in connection with rainfall for India. Four main parameters (area of sowing, nonmonsoon rainfall, monsoon rainfall & technological advancement) have been used for this empirical analysis. In the first model, simple relationship is developed using production & area with zero intercept. This model did not give any significant result (R² = 0.368). In above model when we added a constant, model results varied significantly, and result improved (R² = 0.845). Similarly, three more models along with rainfall have been evaluated. Empirical analysis clearly shows the improvement by adding rainfall as a constraint of equations. With these results, author also advocate for such empirical analysis on regional basis.

Keywords: India, rice, rainfall, empirical, model

Cite this Article

Shivangi. Empirical analysis of Indian rainfall and rice productivity. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology. 2015; 4(1): 27–31p.