ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FARMING SYSTEMS IN WESTERN MAHARASHTRA
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2024
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MPKV, Rahuri
Abstract
Farming system is a mixture of farm enterprises such as crop, livestock,
apiculture, agro-forestry and fruit crops. In this system family allocates its resources. It is
to efficiently manage the existing environment for the attainment of the family goal.
Farming system represents proper combination of farm enterprises and the resources
available to the farmer to raise them for profitability. The farming system is the
combination of crops or a mix of enterprises, where the product and by product of one
enterprise serve as input for another. The focus is on the system as a whole, rather than
just its overall output. Thus, the present investigation was aimed to study, “Economic
analysis of farming systems in Western Maharashtra”. The study investigated the
resource use patterns, efficiencies, productivity, costs, returns, employment and income
patterns, optimal plans, and problems associated with the selected farming systems.
Primary data for the year 2018-19 was collected from 240 sample farmers in the four
districts of Western Maharashtra viz. Ahmednagar, Nashik, Pune, and Sangli in Western
Maharashtra region using a personal interview method with specially designed schedules.
The three widely adopted farming systems were selected for the study: I) Crops only, II)
Crops + Livestock, III) Crops + Livestock + Horticulture crops.
The average land holding of sample farmers was found to be more in rainfed
region than the irrigated region. In all farming systems, land was the major item of capital
assets, while value of irrigation structures was the second major item of capital assets in
both irrigated as well as rainfed region. More capital assets were found in irrigated region
as compared to rainfed region because irrigated land value was higher than rainfed region
due to more irrigation facility and quality of land.