K. N. KRISHNAMURTHYRAJESHREDDY, S.2023-01-132023-01-132021-12-23Th-13051https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810192217Coffee is one of the commercial crops in the world. The present study was carried out to analyze the growth and trend in area, production, productivity and to forecast the production of Coffee crop in selected districts of Karnataka viz., Chikkamagaluru, Kodagu and Hassan. The secondary data pertaining to area, production and productivity of Coffee for the period of 25 years (1995-96 to 2019-20) was collected from Coffee Board of India.Linear, cubic, exponential, logistic and Gompertz models were fitted and the best-fitted model was selected based on lowest MAPE value. Results revealed that cubic model was found to be best fitted model for area under coffee in Chikkamagaluru and Hassan districts. The logistic model was found to be the best-fitted model for area under coffee in Kodagu district, while the best fitted model for production and productivity of coffee in Chikkamagaluru district was linear and Gompertz models, respectively. Gompertz model was best-fitted for production and productivity of coffee in Kodagu district and exponential model was best-fitted for production and productivity of coffee in Hassan district. The study revealed that area under coffee in three districts had an upward trend and productivity of coffee in Chikkamagaluru and Hassan had a downward trend, In Kodagu productivity of coffee is in upward trend over the study period. The forecasted values of production of coffee crop in three districts for the period of 5 years (2020-21 to 2024-25) revealed an upward trend.EnglishThesis