Analysis of Wheat Production in India

Suprity Prasad

Master's thesis

Abstract:

The main objective of the following thesis lies in characterizing the main tendencies of the wheat production in India. In addition to that, the author seeks the goal of identifying if India is self-sufficient in wheat; if the country is benefitting from the terms of trade and the author also identifies the most important factors that influence the change in the production of wheat in India. To reach her goals, the author uses primarily quantitative or empirical methods that include terms of trade ratio, self-sufficiency ratio, trend estimation, linear regression estimation based on the OLS method, elasticities and logarithmic dissolution of factors. The author, after conducting her research, is able to highlight the most important findings of the practical part: the country is self-sufficient in India but the tendency is likely to change under the heavy burden of unbelievably high population growth rate; the country does not really have a good position in the international trade of wheat as the terms of trade index is primarily lower than 1; the most important factors influencing the production of wheat in India are area that accounts for over 6.66% increase in the total amount of wheat produced caused by 1% increase in million hectares and yield that accounts for over 1.01% increase in the total amount of wheat produced caused by 1% increase in ton/ha; the country was focused more on increasing its yield rather than area, which is primarily caused by the overpopulation problem and inability to increase the arable land area.

Keywords

Wheat, India, Terms of Trade, Yield

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 31. 3. 2023

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: Ing. Pavel Kotyza, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme:
Economics and Management