Price behaviour and acerage response of garlic in Saurashtra region

This book is useful for the agril economist as well as researcher in the field of price behavior study of agril commodity. Garlic is an important crop of India, which is used as both spice as well as condiment and earns foreign exchange for the country. Gujarat is one of the important garlic growing states of India, ranking fourth in area and production. Junagadh, Rajkot and Jamnagar districts are major garlic growing districts of the state. the study was examined the growth rates of area, production and productivity of garlic; behaviour of prices and arrivals; degree of market integration and acreage response to price and non-price factors. Various analytical tools viz., exponential function for compound growth rates, multiplicative time series model for price behaviour, correlation coefficients for market integration and Nerlovian lag models for acreage response were used. The broad findings of study revealed that in Junagadh and Rajkot districts and for the state as a whole, positive growth rates for area, production and yield was found, whereas, for Jamnagar district.