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    An empirical study on economics of rice production in Tripura
    (College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, CAU-Imphal, Umiam, 2016-08) Debnath, Pallab; Singh, Ram
    Rice is a staple crop in North-Eastern Hill NEHR) of India including Tripura. At present, the state is facing deficit of 0.19 lakh ton of rice. It is essential to increase the production of rice being the staple diet. In the above light, the present study has been undertaken with the following objectives (i) To work out the costs and returns from paddy cultivation (ii) To estimate the allocative and technical efficiencies in rice production and (iii) To analyse the yield gap in rice production The study was conducted in Dhalai, North Tripura, Sipahijala and South Tripura districts of Tripura state.A sample of 120 rice growers was selected by using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling technique. The farmers were categorized into marginal (< 1 ha) and small category (1 ha or more). The study revealed that the size of land holding of a farmer of Tripura was very less comparative to other state as well as national level. The cultivation of rice was profitable in the state. It was found that the rice growers were not efficient in allocating the available resources judiciously. Some of the production inputs, viz., human labour and fertilizer should be increased while machine labour, seed, irrigation, manure and agrochemical should be decreased in Tripura in-order to make the resources allocatively efficient. The technical efficiency was 79.90 per cent in the state. In Tripura there exists yield gap of 19.80 per cent between actual yield and the potential yield which can be narrowed by increasing human labour, farming experience, education level, fertilizer availability in required quantity, supplementary irrigation facility, labour availability and managing pest and disease. Thus, there is tremendous scope to increase the production of rice for which it is recommended that the government agencies should educate the farmers regarding the economic benefits, judicious use of available resources and ensure the supply of necessary inputs in required quantity in the state.