COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC VEGETABLE FARMING IN MID HILL ZONE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
| dc.contributor.advisor | SHARMA, RAVINDER | |
| dc.contributor.author | THAKUR, NIYATI | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-10T10:05:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-10T10:05:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | “Comparative ECONOMIC ANALYSIS of Organic and Inorganic Vegetable of Organic and Inorganic Vegetable Farming in Mid Hill Zone of Himachal Pradesh” was conducted during 2019-20. Simple random sampling design was used to select the respondents from the randomly selected Dharampur and Gopalpur blocks of Mandi district. A sample of 100 farmers were selected. The selected farmers were classified as marginal (<1 ha) and small (1-2 ha). Both primary and secondary data were used for the study. Socio – economic analysis of the farmers revealed an average size of 4.26 members with a literacy rate of 97.54 per cent and an index of 3.91.Dependency ratio on the study area was 0.18. The cultivated land accounted for 90.34 per cent of total land holdings and 10.90 per cent of the total land holdings was under vegetable crops. A cropping intensity of 176.16 per cent was found in the study area. Average number of cattle units were 2.16 of which 37.33 per cent were buffaloes. Cost analysis of inorganic and organic cultivation revealed that output – input ratio in inorganic cultivation of cauliflowers was 1.71, whereas, in organic cauliflower it was 2.27. Similarly, in case of organic pea this ratio (2.59) was higher compared to inorganic pea (1.96).The output – input of organic potato (2.56) was higher than inorganic potato (1.98). In case of organic tomato, output- input ratio was 2.65 compared to inorganic tomato (1.95), thus revealing higher returns per rupee investment in organic cultivation of vegetable crops. Resource use efficiency analysis of organic and inorganic cultivation of vegetable crops revealed that majority of inputs are being underutilized. Thus their reallocation will result in enhanced production. However, in inorganic cultivation of potato labour was overutilised. Major problems in the cultivation of vegetable crops in the area were high wage rate, lack of organic certification and shortage of skilled labour. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810156512 | |
| dc.keywords | Organic and Inorganic Vegetable, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS,organic pea, | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.pages | 67+xviii | en_US |
| dc.publisher | NAUNI,UHF | en_US |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Economics | en_US |
| dc.theme | Organic and Inorganic Vegetable, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS,organic pea, | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC VEGETABLE FARMING IN MID HILL ZONE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |