Gowda, D.M.MAHESH2021-09-242021-09-242018-04-01Th-12030https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810176168A study has been made on growth and technological changes in major pulses of Karnataka. For this study 30 years (1984-2014) of secondary data on area, production and productivity of major pulses viz. Red gram, Bengal gram, Horse gram and Black gram has been collected from the DES, Bangalore. Linear and exponential models were fitted to know the linear and compound growth rate of major pulses separately for period I (1984-1999), Period II (2000-2014) and for combined period. The results of combined period indicated positively significant growth rate in area, production and productivity of Bengal gram, while Horse gram shows negative growth rate. Black gram shows nonsignificant growth rate in production and negative growth rate for area. No significant growth rate was noticed in period I. During period II the yield of Bengal gram per unit area had increased by 40 per cent. Black gram showed a decrease in yield by 34 per cent. In order to show the nature of trend quadratic model was the best fit, among linear, quadratic and cubic models. Based on adjusted R2 and RMSE. An attempt was made to study the technological change in production of pulses in Karnataka through Cobb- Douglas production function for period I, period II and for combined period. Technological change is determined by significant structural break, through Chow test. The study indicated that no technological changes in major pulse production. This suggests that there is a need to improve the production technology for Pulses in Karnataka State.EnglishThesis