Assessing the climate based productivity potential of soybean in Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

Present study was undertaken to study the effect of rainfall on soybean productivity in three districts of Madhya Pradesh. The secondary data were collected related to area, production and productivity of soybean. The present study revealed that Jabalpur and Indore showed increasing trend in productivity until mid nineties and there after it started declining whereas at Chhindwara declining trend in productivity of soybean. But normalized yield at Chhindwara showed no change. However, a plot of normalized yield with normalized rainfall of these districts shows that there was an increased in yield with increased rainfall at Indore and Chhindwara, but yield declined with increased rainfall at Jabalpur.

Keywords

• Soybean
• rainfall
• productivity
• normal
• yield trend