ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF RICE BASED CROPPING SYSTEM IN MEERUT DISTRICT OF WESTERN UTTAR PRADESH
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2019
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SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY, MEERUT - 250 110 (U.P.), INDIA
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Name of the student : ROHIT CHAUDHARY
Id. No. : 3952
Degree : M.Sc. (Ag.) in Agricultural Economics
Year of Admission : 2017-18
Advisor : Dr. H. L. Singh (Professor), Dept of Agricultural Economics
Title : ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF RICE BASED CROPPING SYSTEM IN
MEERUT DISTRICT OF WESTERN UTTAR PRADESH
The study was conduct in the year 2018-19 on “ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF RICE BASED CROPPING SYSTEM IN MEERUT DISTRICT OF WESTERN UTTAR PRADESH” with the following objectives (i) To study the socio-economic profile of the respondents in the study area. (ii) To identify the cropping system in the study area. (iii) To work out the costs and returns of rice based cropping system. (iv) To identify the major constraints related to rice based cropping system in the study area. From the purposively selected district, two blocks were selected purposively on the basis of highest area under the crop. A total four village were selected randomly and then from the list of the farmer of the selected village, total 100 farmers, 43 marginal (less than 1 hectare), 27 small (1-2 hectare), 20 medium (2-4 hectare), 10 large (up to 4 hectare) were selected for the collection of data. To meet the objective suitable statistical tool were employed. Present study indicated, that mostly respondents were of middle age group and literate and belongs to other backward class with an average family size 6 members. The average size of holding found to be 1.81 hectare. The annual income in the study area was more than 2 lacs and having liabilities of Rs. 75750.00. Results revealed that overall average cost of cultivation of Rice-Potato cropping system were Rs. 215354.00 per hectare, followed by Rice-Wheat cropping system Rs. 184983.00 per hectare and Rice-Mustard cropping system Rs. 171541.00 per hectare. The overall average gross returns obtained from Rice-Potato were more expansive (Rs. 318813.00) as compared to Rice-Wheat Rs. 230221.00 and Rice-Mustard Rs. 214004.00. The overall average net returns per hectare were the highest in case of Rice-Potato (Rs. 103460.00) followed by Rice-Wheat and Rice-Mustard cropping system. The benefit-cost ratio was the measure of profitability of the cropping system from the study it was highest in case of Rice-Potato than the other. Besides that the farmers reported high cost and ultimately availability of credit and the problem like wild animal and crisis of labour during the crop season. Price fluctuations were also reported as one of the important problem.
(H. L. Singh) (Rohit Chaudhary)
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