• Ashok Biswas

This study has been undertaken to investigate the growth and instability in the yield of food grain of West Bengal by districts, over the 33 years, from 1982-83 to 2015-16. Here we use three types of Methodology for measuring growth performance of the yield of food grain, these are Year to Year growth rate, Linear trend growth rate and Exponential trend growth rate. The study derive the fact that Birbhum and Purulia are only two districts for which growth rate of yield of food grain exhibit satisfactory result. Here, I also examined degree of instability of the yield of food grain over the period for every district of West Bengal. To fulfill this purpose I calculated the index of degree of instability for each districts over the entire period of study and examined the relative position of every district in the context of instability of production. In this context it is found that the districts Birbhum, Bankura, 24-Parganas, Dinajpur and Cooch Behar are the good performer indicating that the extent of fluctuation was relatively less and the actual production remains above the trend value for the maximum period of our consideration.

yield of food grain, growth rate, instability of the yield of food grain.

"AN INTER DISTRICT ANALYSIS OF GROWTH AND INSTABILITY OF THE YIELD OF FOOD GRAINS IN WEST BENGAL (1982-83 TO 2014-15).", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.483-492, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I97.pdf

"AN INTER DISTRICT ANALYSIS OF GROWTH AND INSTABILITY OF THE YIELD OF FOOD GRAINS IN WEST BENGAL (1982-83 TO 2014-15).", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp483-492, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I97.pdf