AGRICULTURE, PESTICIDES INTERFACE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN GUNTUR DIST. OF ANDHRA PRADESH
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1999
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The present
study was
undertaken
in Guntur
district
as
-it stood first
in
the
consumption of pesticides in Andhra
Pradesh. To achieve
the
objectives of the study,
a total
of 60
farmers from
three
revenue villages in three mandals viz
, Amaravathi, Bapatla and. Kakumanu mandals were randomly selected well structured schedules were developed and administered to the selected respondents for the needed data. Both tabular and functional analysis were employed to test the formulated hypothesis of the study.
Discriminant function was employed to discriminate the sample farmers into high and. low pesticide users on the basis of their socio—economic characteristics. Trend equation was used to estimate the demand requirement of pesticides for the district. Cobb—Douglas Production function was employed to identify the factors influencing 'the pesticide consumption. The discriminant function analysis revealed that per cent of irrigated area to the total cropped area, caste of the respondent, net returns received, working expenditure, farm size and per cent of commercial crops were the important characteristics useful in discriminating the farmers into two groups of pesticide users. The trend in pesticide consumption for Guntur district was obtained using time series data from 1980—81 to 1978—98. The data period revealed considerable increase in the consumption of pesticides. Consumption of pesticides recorded CGR of 58.67 for liquid pesticides and 41.66 for dusts. The estimated demand for liquid pesticides will be 62.18, 97.58 and 132.98 lakh liters for years 2000, 2010
and 2020 respectively. Similarly for dusts the same would be in order of 6559, 9714 and 12870 mt. Cobb-Douglas production function was used to find the resource use efficiency of pesticides. The production elasticities of pesticides were negative for gross value of output per farm, per cent of irrigated area to the total cropped area and asset position. The estimated MVP/0C ratio for pesticides was also found to be less than unity, indicating the excessive and indiscriminate use of pesticides in the district.
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