The paper has analyzed the performance of agriculture in terms of growth and instability of yield, area and production of major crops in Odisha. The growth analysis has shown a gloomy picture in the postreform era, as instability has augmented during this period, rendering the agricultural...

: The literature on the adoption of modern agriculture technology reveals that several subjective and objective factors are responsible for the incomplete adoption of High Yielding Varieties (HYV) paddy seeds cultivation. Among many socioeconomic factors acting on the incomplete adoption of HYV,...

Rainfall and temperature are the two important weather factors that affect crop yields due to their direct and indirect influences on agricultural practices. This study has negated the method of direct use of meteorological factors (either monthly or seasonal), in multiple regression analysis to...