this means that during this period agricultural production growth outstripped population growth at a faster pace than what has occurred over the previous years growth rates are compound annual growth rates that is the annual rate of growth fr in prediction qp required so that production increases from that observed in period t to that in period tn r explnqpk lnqpin it should be noted that if qp in period tn is abnormally low the estimated compound annual growth rate will also be biased downwards