Production in Last Decade Some Preliminary Results V S Vyas This paper seeks to (1) examine whether there was greater regional imbalance in per hectare production of food- grains in the country at the end of the 1960s compared to the beginning of the same decade; (2) identify the states which have improved their performance in this regard and the stales whose performances has deteriorated; (3) find out the contribution of different crops in the improvement or deterioration of the relative performance of different states; and (4) analyse the contribution of area under and productivity of different crops in explaining the differences in the production of foodgrains in different states.