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Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour

Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour established on 5th August, 2010 is a basic and strategic institution supporting more than 500 researchers and educationist towards imparting education at graduate and post graduate level, conducting basic, strategic, applied and adaptive research activities, ensuring effective transfer of technologies and capacity building of farmers and extension personnel. The university has 6 colleges (5 Agriculture and 1 Horticulture) and 12 research stations spread in 3 agro-ecological zones of Bihar. The University also has 21 KVKS established in 20 of the 25 districts falling under the jurisdiction of the University. The degree programmes of the university and its colleges have been accredited by ICAR in 2015-16. The university is also an ISO 9000:2008 certified organisation with International standard operating protocols for maintaining highest standards in teaching, research, extension and training.VisionThe Bihar Agricultural University was established with the objective of improving quality of life of people of state especially famers constituting more than two third of the population. Having set ultimate goal of benefitting society at large, the university intends to achieve it by imparting word-class need based agricultural education, research, extension and public service.

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    Economics of tobacco production in Samastipur district of Bihar
    (Department of Agril. Economics, BAU, Sabour, 2020) Kumar, Ravi Shankar; Rahaman, S. M.
    The present study was attempted to estimate the costs and returns, resource use efficiency, constraints and underlying reasons of continuity of tobacco production in Samastipur district of Bihar. Multistage sampling technique was employed for the selection of 100 farmers from a congregation of four villages, two from Warisnagar block and two from Sarairanjan block. The study area was predominated by marginal and small farmer (49.00 %), followed by semi-medium farmer (38.00 %) and remaining 13 per cent belonged to medium and large farmer’s category. The results showed that net income of Rs. 53260 per acre was generated from tobacco cultivation. The Gross Income was Rs. 129339 per acre, comprising of Rs. 126339 form main product and Rs. 2999 from by-product. The returns to cost ratio of Sarairanjan block (1.62) was lesser then Warisnangar block (1.67), whereas, the overall returns to cost ratio was 1.70. The cost of hired labour, fertilizer, organic manure, and irrigation were the major cost items contributing 46.26, 25.04, 9.55, and 6.43 per cent to the total cost, respectively. The pest and diseases incidence, lack of skilled labour, lack of capital, lack of govt. support, heavy dependence on market intermediaries and Govt. regulations on banning of tobacco products were the some of the major constraints faced by the farmers in the study area. Higher production, secured market, and traditional knowledge of tobacco production, more remunerative than other crops and higher income in short duration were some of the major reasons of continuity of tobacco production in the study area.