Growth and disparities in fertilizer consumption in major states of India
| dc.contributor.advisor | Anil Kumar | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bathla, Simran | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-06T08:55:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-06T08:55:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Fertilizer is an important production input whose use cannot be avoided to obtain maximum yield and sustainable crop production from a piece of land. India is the second largest consumer of fertilizers in the world after China. It accounted for 16.7 per cent of the world’s N consumption, 15 per cent of phosphatic and 7.2 per cent of potassic nutrients in 2015. Fertilizer consumption ranges from a low of around 55.3 kg/ha in Rajasthan to a high of 231 kg/ ha in Punjab. A host of factors like different cropping pattern, area under high yielding varieties, cropping intensity, credit advances, prices of fertilizer, etc affect fertilizer use pattern in the country. Therefore, the present study has been conducted to estimate the growth, disparities and factors influencing the fertilizer consumption. The study was based on secondary data for the period of twenty years i.e. 1997-98 to 2016-17 for the 17 selected states. In order to study trends in production, import and consumption of fertilizers descriptive analysis was done, to estimate growth in fertilizer consumption exponential growth function has been employed, to measure disparities Coefficient of Variation and Cuddy Della Vella Index has been used, and to identify factors influencing disparities in fertilizer consumption regression analysis has been done. The results of the study indicated that there is wide gap between the consumption and production of fertilizers which is met through imports. There is positive relationship between consumption of fertilizers and foodgrain production. The consumption of all three nutrients grew at a substantially higher rate during 1960s due to inception of green revolution in 60s. The Northern and Southern region accounted for more than 60 per cent of total consumption in India but it is noticed that the Eastern region has the highest CAGR for N, K and NPK while the Northern region has the highest CAGR for K only. The maximum variability is reported for N & P in Eastern region, for K in Northern region and for NPK in Western region. Northern states have low variability as compared to other states. Similarly, P& K has higher variability as compared to N and NPK. Western region and Eastern region has high growth rate with low instability for almost all the nutrients. Northern region has registered low growth rate with low instability for N, P and NPK except K. Southern region registered high growth rate and high instability for P and K. The results of regression analysis clearly indicate that non-price factors such as high yielding varieties, cropping intensity, ground level credit flow and rainfall were more powerful in influencing consumption of fertilizers compared with price factors. The inverse and significant relationship of prices existed only in Himachal Pradesh and Kerala. The strategies should be tailored in such a way that it gives importance to Eastern region as it has significant potential to increase fertilizer consumption for higher crop production. There is need to stabilize the consumption in Southern region due to high growth with high instability. The government should give due importance to non-price factors like better seeds, irrigation, credit, etc. to increase fertilizer use in the country. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810093857 | |
| dc.keywords | domestic consumption, fertilizers, India | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 110 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand) | en_US |
| dc.research.problem | Fertilizers | en_US |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Economics | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Marketing | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Growth and disparities in fertilizer consumption in major states of India | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |