Response Use, Returns to Scale And Farm Size In Kanke Block Of Ranchi District Of Bihar
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Date
1993
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Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi
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1. The use of conventional inputs decreases with size of farms and the use of non-conventional inputs increases with an increase in size of farms. Due to intensive application of these yield increases inputs, all the costs of production increases resulting in an increase in level of various income per hectare viz. gross income farm business income net and family labour income. It can thus be concluded that marginal and small farms of the area studies are not getting the equal advantages of now agricultural technology as of medium and large sized farms. Therefore, special consideration should be given to the non-beneficiaries farms of new technology by providing them inputs like H.Y.V. seeds, fertilizers, irrigation, pesticides, and implements so to help them in adoption of the new high yield technology.
2. Gross farm return are positively related with size of farms in the area studied. Input-output ratio also shows the same pattern. Returns to scale are also soon to be increasing. It can thus to concluded that efficiency of production increases with size of farms. Under such circumstances reducing the size of farms because of land ceiling may adversely affect the agricultural production in the
Chotanagpur plateau .
3. The marginal value productivity of farms inputs significantly differ from one size of farm to other. Under such circumstances, it would carve the purpose in terms of economic benefit to transfer such inputs from one size of farm [where its productivity is observed to be lower] to other size [where productivity is observed to be higher.