Study on economics of alternative cropping system to sugarcane
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Date
2001-06-30
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Vasantrao Naik Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani
Abstract
Sugarcane plays an important role in the farmers
as well as state's economy. Whenever, assured water is
available to the farmer, his preference is for the
cultivation of sugarcane crop because of it's remunerative
prices and developed marketing system by the co-operative
sugar factories.
Sugarcane consumes more water than that of any
other crops. Studies indicated that, there are some
cropping systems which are more profitable (with less
quantity of irrigation water) than that of sugarcane crop^
Hence, the present investigation to "Study on economics of
alternative cropping system to sugarcane" was undertaken
with the objectives TfBasmat taluka of Hingoli districtJ
to identify predominant irrigated cropping systems in the
selected area, to study input utilization of sugarcane and
other- predominant cropping systems, to study the
comparative economics of sugarcane with other predominant
cropping systems and to examine the socio-economic
conditions of the selected sample cultivators.
The study has a reference year of 1998-99. The
farmers were interviewed and data were collected with the
help of specially developed questionnaire. Basmat taluka
of Hingoli district and seven villages from this taluka
were purposively selected on the basis of maximum area
under sugarcane crop. Apart from sugarcane (sole crop),
mung-jowar (rabi), cotton-groundnut (summer), soybean-wheat
and jowar-wheat were identified as predominant cropping
systems followed in the selected villages hence considered
for the study. Five cultivators from each village for each
selected cropping systems were finally selected making
total sample size of 140 cultivators.
Standard method for estimating input utilization
and for findingout economics of selected cropping systems
was followed. The results of study indicated that, maximum
average size of holding of 7.39 ha was from sugarcane
farmers with 35 per cent area under irrigation. There was
no much variation within the different cropping systems in
respect of intensity of cropping. As regards input
utilization, the study revealed that cotton-groundnut
(summer) found to be most labour intensive (306.67 human
labour) cropping system as compared to other systems. This
system was also required maximum bullock pairs (39.84/ha),
use of FYM and plant protection measures over other
selected cropping systems. As regards irrigations,
sugarcane required 22.28 irrigations which was maximum in
number as compared to cotton-groundnut (13.4 irrigations
per ha).
On the basis of net income, the study concluded
that among different surveyed cropping systems, cottongroundnut
(summer) cropping system was found to be most
profitable and labour intensive than that of sugarcane
(sole), mung-jowar (rabi), soybean-wheat, jowar-wheat
cropping systems in the Basmat taluka of Hingoli district.
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