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Abstract
Growth rates are widely employed in the field of agriculture as these have
important policy implications. The usual parametric approach for growth
rate analysis is to assume multiplicative error in the underlying nonlinear
geometric model and then fit the linearized model by ‘method of least
squares’. The deficiencies of this approach have been highlighted. It has
been argued that nonlinear estimation procedures should be employed for
fitting the model and then only the growth rates should be computed. A
methodology has been discussed to compute the compound growth rate
by using growth models, viz. monomolecular, logistic and Gompertz.
Further, as an illustration, the total foodgrain production of our country
during the period 1980 to 2001 has been considered and its growth rate
has been computed.