Small Area Estimation Techniques in Wheat Production - An Empirical Study
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2012
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
The study was attempted to estimate the number of farmers engaged in wheat
production activities in the villages of Bagalkot and Dharwad using small area
techniques . In the present study, the Bagalkot and Dharwad taluks are considered as
broad area and villages in this area are considered as small area. The Bagalkot district
is selected under irrigated area and Dharwad district is selected under rainfed area.
From each selected district, one taluk was selected randomly, from each taluk four
villages were selected and from each selected village twenty five farmers were
selected randomly. The total sample size was 200 farmers. The primary data was
collected from the Wheat growing farmers by personal interview method. The
schedule used for collection of data included information on socio-economic status of
the farmers, information on agricultural and animal husbandry activities and other
farm activities undertaken by the farmers. The Analytical tools used under this
research study were Small area estimation techniques which include Broad area ratio
estimation (BARE) to know the percentage of farmers involved in wheat growing
activity. The percentage of wheat growing farmers in Bagalkot district is more (68 per
cent) than Dharwad district (57.7 per cent). Multiple regressions models to know the
relationship between wheat production and different weather parameters used and also
to find out the significances of the all variables. There was a significant effect
between wheat production and the variables like total area under wheat crop, fertilizer
consumption as well as rainfall. The estimates of wheat yield by SRSWOR sampling
per unit method were used to assess the more precise estimates of wheat yield by
sample survey and lastly the researcher has concluded the efficacy of the smaller
areas to larger areas by different estimators and their efficiencies.