Economics of Production and Marketing of paddy in Faizabad District of Eastern Uttar Pradesh
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2013-08-01
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ANDUAT,KUMARGANJ,AYODHYA
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Paddy (Oryza sativa L.) belongs to the family Poaceae. It is the staple food of
more than 60 per cent of the world’s population and for three fourth of the Indian
population. It is likely to be continued to dominant in future also. In the world, paddy
ranks first in terms of both area and production it occupies 154.00 million hectares
with an annual production of 600.00 million tonnes with the productivity of 3.9
tonnes/ hectares during 2010 (Subba Rao et al., 2010). In India, paddy also ranks first
by means of both area and production it occupies an area of 44.1 million hectares with
annual production 131.3 million tonnes with productivity 3.0 tonnes/hectares during
2010. India ranks second only after the China in production. In Uttar Pradesh paddy
occupies around 5.34 mha with production of 9.95 million tonnes having productivity
1.79 tonnes/ hectare (Anonymous, 2009). In Faizabad district paddy is grown in
95675 hectare producing 20, 34,050.5 metric tonnes with 21.26 quintals per hectare of
yield (Statistical bulletin, Faizabad, 2008-09). To ensure the Farmers adequate returns
on their surplus produce marketing also become important. Three stage stratified
random sampling technique were used to selected the sample farmers. Faizabad
District of Eastern Uttar Pradesh was selected purposively to avoid the operational
inconvenience of the investigator. A list of all the 11 block in Faizabad district of
Eastern U.P. were prepared and arranged in descending order of area under paddy.
The one block namely Milkipur having highest area in paddy were production in
Faizabad district was selected randomly for the study. A list of village growing paddy
in selected block was obtained from efficient record and five villages having
reasonable higher area under paddy were selected for study. A list of all the cultivator
of each selected villages were prepared along with their size of the agricultural
holding and then it was arranged in ascending order on the basis of holding size. The
cultivators were classified into four categories viz. below 1 hectare (marginal), 1- 2 ha
(small), 2- 4 ha (medium) and 4 ha and above (large). Finally hundred farmers were
selected randomly from five selected villages.
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