VARIABILITY AND GROWTH OF GRAM PRODUCTION IN MADHYA PRADESH

Gram is a very important pulse crop in the leguminous family. It is highly nutrious and places third in the important list of the food that are cultivated throughout the world. In India Gram is grown in rain fed area and Madhya Pradesh produce major share of 42% in the Indian production. The secondary data were collected for area, production and productivity of Gram Pertains 41 years i.e.1972-73 to 2012-13 from various issues of govt. publication. The area, production and productivity of Gram increased in all the period. The compound growth rate of Gram was 1.46,2.97 and 1.6 per cent of area production and productivity in Madhya Pradesh respectively. The variation in area, production and productivity were 19.2, 37.10 and 22.77 per cent found in Madhya Pradesh.