G.K.HIREMATHRAMESH B. LAKHANA2019-03-192019-03-192005-06-22Th-7707http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810099020PRODUCTION. PRICE BEHAVIOUR AND EXPORT OF GROUNDNUT IN INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GUJARAT STATE -AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS RAMESH. B. LAKHANA ABSTRACT Dr. G. K. HIREMATH Major Advisor The Gujarat state ranks first in area and fourth in production with 1.8 million ha. area and 1.5 million tones of groundnut production, respectively. The study highlighted on growth rates in area, production and yield, cost and returns, seasonality arrivals and prices and also growth rate and direction of export of Indian groundnut. Various statistical techniques viz., exponential growth functions, markov chain analysis, orthogonal polynomial regression, moving averages and correlation analysis were employed to analyse the data to fulfill the objectives.ennullThesis