IMPACT OF FARM MECHANIZATION ON FARM INCOME- AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN MANDYA DISTRICT
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2022-04-22
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, BANGALORE
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The study used data from 60 farmers and 4 custom hiring centres (CHCs) in Mandya district and analysed using descriptive statistics, growth rate analysis, DEA and Partial budgeting. Results on growth rate analysis indicated positive and significant growth in consumption of power operated farm machineries and implements, mechanical and total power availability in Mandya and Karnataka while hand operated and animal operated machineries decreased. Higher per cent (49%) of farming operation were practiced by mechanical method in paddy compared to ragi (26%). The comparison of farms operating with different levels of mechanization revealed that farms with higher level of mechanization realised per acre net gain of Rs. 7955 (Paddy) and Rs. 2122 (Ragi) over farms with low level of mechanization. Paddy cultivating farmers following higher level of mechanization were viewed more efficient both technically (97.30 %) and economically (80.10 %) than farmers with low level of mechanization (93.60 % and 58.50 %). Similarly, in Ragi crop also, the farmers with higher level of mechanization were technically (97.20 %) and economically (85.40 %) more efficient than farmers with low level of mechanization (91.80 % and 78.40 %). The performance analysis of CHCs revealed
positive impact on farm mechanization. However, problems like small size of holding, undulated land and high investment requirement are coming in the way of practicing farm mechanization on large scale. CHCs were faced with the problem of lack of skilled labour in managing farm machineries and under- utilisation of machineries due to poor awareness about CHCs among farmers.