PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVITY OF PRINCIPAL CROPS IN TAMILNADU SINCE 2010-11 TO

Agriculture plays an important role in economic development, such as provision of food to the nation, enlarging exports, transfer of manpower to non-agricultural sectors, contribution to capital formation, and securing markets for industrialization. The present study discussed an agricultural production and productivity trend in TamilNadu from 2010-11 to 2020-21. Data on important variables like, principal crops of production, area under cultivation and yield per hectare. For analysis of this study were used the statistical tools like Simple Linear Regression Model, and annual growth rates. The major objectives of the study were to evaluate the performance of agricultural production in TamilNadu, and to analyse the trend of agricultural production and productivity in area under cultivation of food grains in Tamil Nadu from 2010-11 to 2020-21 and to compute the compound growth rate of agricultural production area under cultivation and yield of food grains in TamilNadu. So the Government of India has to give more importance to the agricultural sector to promote the economic growth.