AGRICULTURAL GROWTH IN YANAM REGION OF UNION TERRITORY OF PONDICHERRI
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2002
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Professor jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University
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This study was under - taken to analyse the growth patterns of Major crops in Yanam region of Union Territory of Pondicherry, components of change in variance in the growth and factors influencing in the area production and productivity, cost and returns of major crops and to identify the constraints in farm production faced by farmers. All four villages were selected for the study. Paddy growers were categorised into three groups viz., Small, medium and large farmers. The secondary data on area, production and productivity and for components of change in variance of paddy and greengram for the period of 1980-8 1 to 1990-2000 were collected
from various issues of statistical abstracts and crop reports published by Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Government -of Pondicheny. Index numbers: compound growth rates, decomposition analysis, cost concepts for used for analysis of the data. The results revealed that there was significant growth rate in selected crops except in crop I during the study period. Decomposition analysis explained that change in area yield co-variance is 7.64 % in paddy and 4.56% in greengram in the Yanam region. Productivity was the main contributing factor for change in .production of paddy aid increasing area under greengram was the chief contributing factor for the increase in average production. The results revealed from cost concept per hectare cost increased with increase in farm size. Manures and fertilizers was the major cost in paddy production, occupying on an average about 15.1 1 per cent of total cost. Both gross and net returns increased with increase in fam size on pooled fams, cost of production per quintal was Rs. 308.68 The important production problems faced by farmers were lack of quality seed, non availability of human labour, injudicious use of plant protectiorl chemicals, non availability of fertilizers. These problems must be rectified to augument more profits.
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