ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BENGALGRAM IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
| dc.contributor.advisor | CHOUDARY, N.A | |
| dc.contributor.author | sita rambabu, v | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-02T13:41:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-02T13:41:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | To evaluate the economic aspects, the study entitled “Economic analysis of bengalgram in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh” was conducted with the following specific objectives: 1. To estimate growth rates in area, production and productivity in bengalgram. 2. To compare the cost and returns of bengalgram in different sizes of farms. 3. To estimate the resource use efficiency on different sizes of farms. 4. To study the production and marketing constraints in bengalgram. Prakasam district was purposively selected as it stood second place in both area and production of bengalgram in Andhra Pradesh. A three stage sampling technique was adopted to select respondents. Three mandals were selected based on the highest area grown in the district. Two villages from each mandal with 20 farmers from each village were selected based on the highest area cultivated. All the bengalgram growers were categorized into two groups namely Group I and Group II, and 60 farmers were selected randomly in each group making the total sample size 120. The tabular analysis was used to estimate cost and returns and problems in production and marketing. Compound growth rate and Cobb-Douglas type of production function were employed, to study the area, production and productivity of bengalgram crop in Prakasam district as well as in Andhra Pradesh and resource use efficiency in bengalgram production. The results revealed that the compound growth rates of bengalgram of Andhra Pradesh showed a positive significant increasing growth in area, production and productivity at 13.25, 19.09 and 5.25 per cent per annum, respectively. Similarly, in Prakasam district a positive significant increasing growth rates in area, production and productivity were 30.04, 37.11 and 5.43 per cent per annum, respectively. The average total cost per hectare was Rs.50819.93 and increased with the farm size. Machine labour (Rs.8169.91) was the major cost component in bengalgram production occupying on an average about 16.08 per cent of total cost. Both gross returns (Rs.60334.5) and net returns (Rs.4432.57) increased with the increase in farm size. On an average cost of production per quintal was Rs.2400.56. Functional analysis revealed the operation of diminishing marginal return to scale. In bengalgram cultivation the inputs like seed and manures and fertilizers were exerting significant influence on gross returns. The marginal value of product to opportunity cost ratios of machine labour, manures and fertilizers and plant protection chemicals were being subjected to excessive utilization on pooled bengalgram farms. Hence there is a need to reorganise and optimum utilization of these resources would reduce the cost of cultivation and it would leads to increased profit. The important production and marketing problems faced by the farmers were lack of quality seeds, Non availability of timely credit, high cost of fertilizers and low remunerative price for their produce. These problems must be rectified to augment higher profits. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/70542 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | ACHARYA N. G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | D8395; | |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Economics | |
| dc.subject | ECONOMIC, ANALYSIS, BENGALGRAM, PRAKASAM DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
| dc.title | ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BENGALGRAM IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |