170 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) ISSN: 2583-4053 Volume-2 Issue-2 || April 2023 || PP. 170-175 https://doi.org/10.55544/jrasb.2.2.25 Journal for Research in Applied Sciences and Biotechnology www.jrasb.com Growth and Instability in Area, Production and Productivity of Grape Crop in Afghanistan Hamidullah Younisi 1 , Zabihullah Farid 2 and Khalid Joya 3 1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Parwan University, Charikar-1102, AFGHANISTAN. 2 Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Parwan University, Charikar-1102, AFGHANISTAN. 3 Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Parwan University, Charikar-1102, AFGHANISTAN. 1 Corresponding Author: hamidullahyuonisi@yahoo.com www.jrasb.com || Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023): April Issue Received: 02-04-2023 Revised: 23-04-2023 Accepted: 03-05-2023 ABSTRACT Grapes constitute a widely grown fruit in Afghanistan. Grapes can be grown just in anywhere but mostly in Kabul, Parwan, Kandahar, Zabul and Ghazni provinces. In Afghanistan there are three local varieties that offer the best commercial return for export: Shindokhani, Kishmishi and Taifi. New commercial varieties are also being introduced, such as Thompson Seedless and Red Globe, and are beginning to make inroads into foreign markets. The present study estimates the growth rate and instability of area, production, productivity of grape in top five provinces and Afghanistan as a whole during years 2011-12 to 2019-20. To analyse the growth rate and instability of area, production and productivity of grape, the statistical tools like Compound growth rate (CGR) and Coefficient of Variation (CV) were used. The result of the study showed that, the CGR for production in the Kandahar and Ghazni provinces were found positive and significant. While negative growth rate were found in Kabul, Parwan and Zabul provinces. The instability of production and area were very high in Kandahar province compare to the other selected provinces. Keywords- Area, Compound growth rate, Instability, Production, Productivity. I. INTRODUCTION Grapes commonly known as grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is one of the old fruit crops belongs to the family of Vitaceae is a liana with flaky bark. (Zannat Urbi et al. 2014) It is believed to have originated in Armenia near the Black and Caspian Sea in Russia. An independent and recent origin of grapes is also traced to North America. From America grapes spread westwards to Europe and Eastwards to Iran and Afghanistan. Grapes used as its raw form or used by making juice, jam, jelly, vinegar, grape seed oil, raisins and grape syrup. (Bakhshipour et al. 2012) Grapes contain different compounds having medicinal and health promoting affects. Grapes have antioxidant activity due to their phenolic contents; they have shown good source of phenolic antioxidants (115 and 361 mg/kg of total phenolics). (Parker, et al. 2007) The total area under grape cultivation in the world is 6.9 million hectares with the production of 76 million tonnes resulting in a yield of 11 (tonnes/ha). The largest producer of grapes in the world is China 13.08 million tonnes that make a share of 16.8 percent of total production of grapes in the world. After China, Italy 7.17 million, USA 6.68 million, France 5.91 million, Spain 5.39 million, and Turkey 4.55 million are major grape producing countries. Afghanistan with production of 9.55 thousand stand in 19th position among largest producing countries. (National Research Centre for grape, ICAR, India 2017) Grapes in Afghanistan are consumed fresh, dried and in the form of grape juice. Grapes are grown in