Economics of Lentil cultivation in Gaya district of Bihar
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Date
2019
Authors
Kumar, Subodh
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur (Bihar)
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The present study aimed for analyzing the lentil production in Gaya district of Bihar. Four villages, namely Balna and Bataspur from Chandauti block, Haspura and Koshdihra from Paraiya block were selected for the purpose of the study. The sample size comprised of marginal (29), small (45), medium (20) and large (6) farmers thus, respondent altogether were 100.
The compound growth rates of area, production and productivity of major pulses in the state were analyzed for 18 years, divided into 4 periods namely period I (2000-01 to 2005-06), period II ( 2006-07 to 2011-12), period III (2012-13 to 2017-18) and overall period( 2000-01 to 2017-18). It was found that growth rates of area and production of pulses declined in overall period and the same trend followed in area during period I and in period III. But, the growth rates of productivity were found positive for all the periods under consideration.
In respect of state, Gaya district also showed mostly negative growth rate of area during overall period (2000-01 to 2017-18). During period I (2000-01to 2005-06), area under pulse crops decelerated and a similar trend was also observed in period III (2012-13 to 2017-18). As regards to production of pulses, compound growth rate was negative for all the pulse crops in all periods except in period II (2006-07 to 2011-12) for lentil and gram. In period I it showed a negative growth trend while it was positive for most of the pulse crops in period II. The compound growth rate of productivity was positive for overall period and period II while it was negative for some of the pulse crops such as in Period I and period III.
The instability analysis revealed that, co-efficient of variation on area under lentil for state as whole varied from 3.65 to 8.19 percent, while in Gaya district it was 27.91 percent during overall period, indicating that there was a lot of variation in area utilization. In case of productivity for the state as whole, it revealed moderate instability during the overall period, while it indicated high instability in Gaya district.
The cost of cultivation of lentil was estimated to be Rs. 38619.11 per hectare, out of this Rs. 19778.32 (52.21 percent) was operational and Rs. 18840.79 (48.78 percent) as overhead cost. In case of various farm size-groups, the per hectare total
cost was found to be Rs. 34965.30, Rs. 37352.94, Rs. 38838.11 and Rs. 40981.91 for marginal, small, medium and large farms, respectively.
Production efficiency of different factors of production of lentil crop was estimated by using Cobb- Douglas production function. The regression analysis revealed that farmers in the study area could be well advised to increase expenditure on machine labour and human labour, since the overall marginal value productivities for these variables were observed to be 4.15 and 1.77, respectively.
It was observed that unavailability of seeds of high yielding varieties, pest and disease attack and lack of modern technologies were indentified as common problems faced by most of the lentil growing farmers in the study area. Lack of awareness about the new ongoing developmental schemes and upcoming schemes and poor extension services were some other problems that led to less production of lentil.
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