Browsing by Author "Chandrabhanu, P"

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    Cobweb theory approach: An application to rice production in Kerala
    (Kerala Agricultural University, 1995) Sreeja, S; Chandrabhanu, P
    Ail attempt is made to examine how rice fanners respond to output with movements in prices, over the last fifteen years, using Cobweb model. It is found that the slope of the demand curve to be greater than the slope of the supply curve of paddy and the price structure of paddy in Kerala is following a convergent Cobweb starting above the equilibrium. The projected values based on the model show that the instability of the supply behaviour to adjust to changes in price should be changed to reduce the time lag in achieving the equilibrium price and output.
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    Supply behaviour of sesamum and groundnut in Kerala
    (Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara, 1991) Chandrabhanu, P; Thomas, E K
    The present study focuses on the two principal seasonal oilseed crops of Kerala viz. sesamum and groundnut. Trends in area, production and productivity as well as the determinants of area and productivity of these two crops were analysed both at the district and state levels using time series data for the 1961-62 to 1987-88 period. Simple indices and three different functional forms viz. the linear, log-linear and the quadriatic were used to measure the trend for two sub periods viz. 1961-62 to 1974-75 and 1975-76 to 1987-88 as well as for the period as a whole. Decomposition analysis was carried out to partion out the relative contributions of area and productivity towards the changes in output. Variability was measured using the coefficient of variation.