Trend and Pattern of Major Crops in Haryana: ...

Trend and Pattern of Major Crops in Haryana: A Geographical Analysis

Author Name : Mr. Anil

Agriculture plays very important roll to determine the economy of Haryana. This paper bring out contrast on trend of five majors crops of Haryana, which are, rice, jowar, bajra, wheat and sugarcane. The paper also compares the district-wise production of these crops of Haryana in 2010-11. This paper is based on secondary source of data collected from Statistical Abstract Haryana 2011-12. Data has been analyzed with the help of general statistical techniques. Patten has been shown with the help of ARC GIS software 9.3. The study found that the area under rice and wheat is continuously increased however the area under bajra, wheat and sugarcane is decreased from 1966-67 to 2010-11. It is also found that production of rice, wheat and Bajra is mostly continuously increased from 1966-67 to 2010-11. On the other side, the production of sugarcane is decline after 2005-06 and the production of jowar is also decreased in Haryana form 1966-67 to 2010-11. Yamunanagar have the highest production of sugarcane followed by Karnal and Kurukshetra. The highest production of wheat is recorded in Sims followed by Hisar. The highest production of rice is recorded in Karnal l followed by Kaithal, Kurukshetra and Fatehabad. Production of Bajra is highest in Bhiwani and and production of jowar is highest in Rohtak.