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    ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF NATURAL FARMING IN SIRMAUR DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (NAUNI,UHF, 2020-11) VASHISHAT, ROHIT KUMAR; SHARMA, SUBHASH
    ABSTRACT The present study entitled “Economic Analysis of Natural Farming in Sirmaur District of Himachal Pradesh” was carried out in Sirmour district. A sample of 60 farmers practicing natural farming was selected using simple random sampling. Results of the study revealed that literacy rate was 95.30 percent in males and 76.90 in females and literacy index was 2.8 in males and 2.1 in females. Average land holding was 0.82 ha out of which natural farming area was 0.39 ha in the sampled farms. Under natural farming the major crop combinations adopted by farmers in Kharif season were cereals-vegetables (0.13 ha) followed by cereals–vegetables-pulses (0.10 ha), vegetables (0.10 ha) and sugarcane-vegetables-turmeric and in Rabi season cereals-vegetables (0.15 ha) followed by cereals-vegetables-oil seed crops (0.14 ha) and cereals–vegetables-pulses (0.08 ha). Under natural farming cost of cultivation in Kharif season was Rs. 62981.6/ha in cereals-vegetables-pulses, Rs.90395.7/ha in cereals-vegetables crop combination, Rs. 111252.26/ha in vegetables & Rs. 70472.73/ha in sugarcane-vegetables-turmeric and in Rabi season, cost of cultivation was Rs. 58244/ha in cereals-vegetables-pulses, Rs. 54870/ha in cereals-vegetables and Rs. 49886/ha in cereals-vegetables- oil seed crops. Under natural farming, the CEY in Kharif season was 74.32 q/ha in cereals-vegetables-pulses, 78.65 q/ha in cereals-vegetables, 142.63q/ha in vegetables and 1308.09 q/ha insugarcanevegetables-turmeric and in Rabi season the CEY was 65.99 q/ha in cereals-vegetables-pulses, 66.75 q/ha in cerealsvegetables and 40.51 q/ha in cereals-vegetables- oil seed crops. In Rabi season, under natural farming it has been observed that the per cent increase in the yield in comparison to conventional farming was highest in cerealsvegetables-pulses (157%) followed by cereals-vegetables- oil seed crops (85%) and cereals-vegetables (10%) and in Kharif season, the per cent increase was highest in vegetables (66%) followed by sugarcane-vegetables-turmeric (61%), cereals-vegetables (25%), cereals-vegetables-pulses (14%). In Kharif season, the REE (Relative Economic Efficiency) of natural farming system was highest in vegetables (99 %) followed by sugarcane-vegetables-turmeric (92%), cereals-vegetables-pulses (85%) and cereals-vegetables (30%) and in Rabi season, REE of natural farming system was highest in cereals-vegetables-pulses (570%) followed by cereals-vegetables (-7%) and cerealsvegetables- oil seed crops (-34.31%) in comparison to conventional farming. In natural farming and conventional farming systems the sum of the elasticity coefficient were found greater than one, indicated increasing returns to scale. The factor-price ratio was more than one in variables Jivamrit, Ghanjivamrit, Agniastra and seed in natural farming, which showed that the resources were at under utilization level. The non-availability of specialised market was ranked I problem with the 33.59 Garret mean score followed by labour intensive problem (II), unfair price for produce in market (III) and high wage rates (IV). The disease occurrence in the natural farming system was ranked least problem(15th) which means natural farming is successful in controlling diseases infarming field