COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS OF COW BASED NATURAL FARMING VIS-À-VIS CONVENTIONAL FARMING IN MIDDLE GUJARAT
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2021
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND
Abstract
The present investigation was undertaken with a view to study socio-economic
profile, natural farming practices, cost and return, resource use efficiency and constrained
faced by CBNF adopter farmers in Middle Gujarat. The study covered 3 districts and total
60 CBNF adopters and 60 non-CBNF farmers from Ahmedabad, Kheda and Vadodara
districts. To study the production, cost and return from farmers (both categories of
farmers practicing cow based natural farming and conventional farming) of rice and
wheat crops, required primary data were collected from the farmers related to the
agricultural year 2019-20 rabi and kharif season. The tabular, cost and returns analysis
and resource use efficiency were used to achieve specific objectives of the study.