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: Horticulture sector contributes about 24.5 per cent of the GDP from about 8 per cent of the area under Horticulture. A large variety of fruits are grown in India. India accounts for 10 per cent of the total world production of fruits. India accounts for an area of 3.73 million ha under fruit crops with a production of 44.04 million tonnes. This study is conducted to asses Growth, variability in weather parameter, correlation in area, production and productivity of fruit crops, Shift in area among fruit crops and to forecast area under these fruits. The study is conducted based on secondary data taken from Metrological Department, NHB. To asses data various sophisticated tools was used using markov chain analysis, CGR, Correlation etc. The study reveals that CGR was significant in case of productivity of banana (1.7%) and mango (2.35%) at 1 per cent. CV was more in production of papaya with 35.04 per cent. There was negatively correlated in case of rainfall and minimum temperature with area production and productivity but in case of maximum rainfall it shows positively correlated, papaya production with 52 per cent. Highest area is retained by mango (80.31%) followed by banana (49.89 %), citrus (39.34 %) and it has been forecast that area under all fruit crops increases.HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE : Patil, Nethravathi Ashok, Yeldhalli, R.A.,

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:Onion is an important vegetable crop grown and consumed widely across the world. India is the second largest producer of onion, in the world next only to China but the productivity of onion in India is very low i.e. 14.21 tons/ ha. Keeping this in view the present study is undertaken to analyze growth in area and production, seasonal indices of arrivals and prices, trend in export of major onion growing counties and trade direction of Indian onion. The study was based on secondary data collected from various sources such as APEDA, Directorate of Economics and Statistics. Compound growth rate and Markov chain analysis were carried out. Results of the study revealed that, in India among the states Bihar is having highest significant growth rate in area under cultivation of onion followed by Gujarat (12.75%). Among the major onion exporting counties China is showing the highest growth rate (19.37%) in export over last 21 years followed by India (9.68%). China showing highest export growth rate it may become competitive exporter in the international market. Trade direction analysis revealed that Malaysia was one of the most stable markets among the major importers of onion from India as reflected by high probability of retention of 0.5141, followed by UAE (39.67%), Hence, India may have to maintain a good trade relation with these countries.

Raisin supply chain was analysed in Bijapur district of Karnataka and found that there was no efficient supply chain for raisin in the study area as there were some missing links between the players within the supply chain of raisin which have to be bridged for strengthening the supply chain. Raisin had a complex supply chain map as there were diversified players involved in the chain. In raisin supply chain, the major actors involved include input supplier, farmer, farmer cum processor, cold storage entrepreneur, trader, wholesaler, retailer, processor and consumer.