Determinants of apple production in Jammu and Kashmir

The paper examined the determinants of Apple Production (AP) in Jammu and Kashmir like Gross Domestic Product Per Capita (GDPc), Labour effort (Le), Fertilizer utilization (Fu), Climatic Conditions (CC) and Capital induction (CI). Broadly the Apple production depends on Labour effort used and the Capital induction (ie use of fertilizers pesticides, fungicides etc). Capital induction itself depends on GDPc. Thus Apple Production is a function of Labour effort and Capital induction keeping GDPc and Climatic conditions and technology constant. Using a Cobb Douglas type production function we have,