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Subject: Agricultural Economics × Author: Yadav, Vikas × End date: 2006 × Start date: 2006 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    An economic analysis of production and technical efficiency of cotton crop in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2006) Yadav, Vikas; Goyal, S.K.
    The present study was undertaken in Hisar and Sirsa districts of Haryana state with the following specific objectives: i) To study the economics of cotton production in Haryana, ii) to work out technical efficiency in cotton production and iii) to identify the factors for variation in technical efficiency in production among different cotton growers. The study is based on primary data collected for the year 2003-04. Multistage random sampling technique has been adopted to select the respondents. The required data were collected from 160 cotton growing farmers from eight randomly selected villages of both the districts. For achieving the objectives of the study besides simple tabular analysis, averages and percentages, stochastic frontier production function approach has been used. The study revealed that almost similar cropping pattern was witnessed on all the categories of farmers in both the districts. The average yield of crops like wheat, barley, cotton, rapeseed and mustard and bajra was relatively higher in case of small farmers followed by medium and large farmers. The study further revealed that the per acre gross returns worked out was highest i.e. Rs. 14531 on small farms followed by medium farms (Rs. 14246) and large farms (Rs. 14106). The net return also showed the same pattern. The benefit cost ratio was greater than one on all the categories of farms which indicates that the investment in cotton cultivation is economically viable. The most important cost component was the rental value of land followed by plant protection expenditure, irrigation expenditure, picking, fertilizer, seed, FYM and preparatory tillage etc. Among the variables considered for estimating stochastic frontier production function, plant protection expenditure was found to have the most dominant impact on the yield of cotton. The variance parameter clearly shows that the observed output of cotton in the study area is less than the potential output due to technical inefficiency. The average level of technical efficiency was estimated to be 0.84 which implies that, on an average the sample farmers in the study area produced cotton upto 84 per cent of the potential frontier production level. The production of the average farmer could be increased by 16 per cent by adopting the technology followed by best practice farmer. The level of technical efficiency increases with the increase in education level, contact of farmers with extension scientists/agency (s) and percentage of irrigated area to total area. The level of technical efficiency decreases with the increase in age and number of working members in the family.