Economic Affairs, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 371-378, September 2020 DOI: 10.46852/0424-2513.3.2020.8 How to cite this article: Bairwa, K.C., Balai, H.K., Meena, G.L., Prasad, D. Kumari, Y., Singh, H. and Yadav, A. (2020). Inter-Temporal Production Performance of Pulse Crops: In Indian Context. Economic Affairs, 65(3): 371-378. Source of Support: None; Conflict of Interest: None Inter-Temporal Production Performance of Pulse Crops: In Indian Context Kailash Chand Bairwa 1* , Harkesh Kumar Balai 2 , G.L. Meena 3 , Dasharath Prasad 4 , Yashoda Kumari 5 , Hari Singh 3 and Anju Yadav 2 1 Assistant Professor (Agricultural Economics), Agriculture University, Jodhpur, India 2 Department of Agricultural Economics & Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur, India 3 Assistant Professor (Agricultural Economics), Department of Agricultural Economics & Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur, India 4 Assistant Professor (Agronomy), Agricultural Research Station, Sriganganagar, SKRAU, Bikaner, India 5 School lecturer (Commerce), LML Government Girls Senior School, (Deeg) Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India *Corresponding author: kailashiari@gmail.com (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4278-3109) Received: 22-03-2020 Revised: 17-07-2020 Accepted: 20-08-2020 ABSTRACT The present study investigates to growth and relative contribution of area and yield in production of green gram, black gram chickpea, pigeon pea and lentil pulse crops in India. The study period (1998-99 to 2017-18) is divided into three periods viz., period-I (1998-99 to 2007-08), period-II (2008-09 to 2017-18) and period-III (1998-99 to 2017-18). Time series data on area, production and yield were collected from Directorate of Pulses Development, Bhopal, Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Government of India. The semi-log model, Cuddy-Della Valle instability index and decomposition analysis models were used to analyze the CAGR, instability and relative contribution of area, yield and interaction components. The study clearly fnds that area and production of green gram (Vigna radiata) is notifed highest compound annual growth rate 1.84 and 1.76 percent respectively, during period-I. In case of yield highest growth rate is reported in black gram (0.26 percent) during the same period. During second period, highest CAGR in area, production and yield is found in black gram at 6.00, 10.30 and 4.10 percent respectively. During all three periods, instability in area, production and yield was very low, except total pulse in second period. The decomposition analysis of production is revealed that yield efect and area efect are major sources of output growth in kharif and rabi pulses, respectively. The Identifed growth rate in individual pulse crop is a great informative work because it provides chronological background of how the cultivation of pulses persuades the life of farmers either in negative or positive way. The study also tries to know the peak or trough in past cultivation of pulses crops. Highlights m Less instability was reported in area, production and yield of pulse crops m Area and yield are major source of decomposition in pulses. Keywords: Decomposition analysis, Growth rate, kharif pulses, Production, rabi pluses and Yield Pulses are the basic ingredient in the diet of a vast majority of Indian livelihood. The country grows a wide variety of pulses crops such as Chickpea (Cicer arietinum), Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) green gram (Vigna radiata), black gram (Vigna mungo), cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata), pea ( Pisum sativum), moth bean (Vigna acontifolia), grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), horse gram ( Macrotyloma uniflorum) and lentil