Comparative economics of mechanical VIS-A-VIS manual harvesting of sugarcane in Latur district
| dc.contributor.advisor | Changule, R. B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Munde, Tukaram Balasaheb | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-06T06:49:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-06T06:49:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-05-30 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Sugarcane (Saccharam officinaram) belongs to family gramineae, and is one of the major commercial crops of India which is the homeland of sugarcane cultivation. India is occupying about 4.41 million hectares area with an annual sugarcane production of 300 million tonnes and productivity is 68.60 tonnes per hectare. Whereas Maharashtra having second position in area and production of sugarcane with 0.78 million hectares and 57.04 million tonnes production. Latur is among one of the major district of Maharashtra where sugarcane was cultivated on an area of 0.024 million hectares area sugarcane production was 1.84 million tonnes and productivity is 77.00 tonnes per hectare. Mostly sugarcane in India was harvested manually. Due to shortage of manual labour in the last few years, the harvesting of sugarcane was often delayed, leading to low recovery of sugar from cane. The government of Maharashtra state has thus decided to assist in the purchase of mechanical sugarcane harvesters by individual producers, groups of farmers, or cooperative sugar mills during current fiscal 2011-12. A single sugarcane harvester was working 8 hours a day and covering 1 hectare of sugarcane fields. It will harvest 100 tonnes of sugarcane per day per harvester and 18,000 tonnes of sugarcane 68 per season, in working 180 days a year. Day by day labour wages are increasing and in the same way demand of agriculture products. Sugarcane harvesting is a very labour intensive activity in which workers usually become fatigued after manually cutting the cane for a few hours. The study was centered on the comparative economics mechanical vs manual harvesting method of sugarcane. The study will be useful for the farmer in minimizing the cost and increasing the profit. The financing institution which supplies the credit would get the information regarding the economic feasibility of the method. Multistage sampling design was adopted in selection of district, villages and sugarcane growers. In fust stage, Latur district was selected. In Latur district, Vikas cooperative sugar factory was selected. Four villages from sugar factory were selected. Sixty four sugarcane growers were selected and were grouped in mechanical harvesting method of sugarcane growers and manual harvesting method of sugarcane growers. The analytical techniques like tabular analysisand frequency and percentage method were used to analyze the data in the present study. Investment on commonly used assets and irrigation structure was Rs. 4726.92 and Rs. 82834.76 on the mechanical harvesting method of sugarcane farm while it was Rs. 4288.67and Rs. 80543.75 in manual harvesting method of sugarcane farm observed. Gross return was found to be Rs. 283874.00, Cost-C was Rs. 149592.12 and net profit was Rs. 134281.88 in mechanical harvesting method of sugarcane farm, while in manual harvesting method of sugarcane farm it was Rs. 254127, Rs. 151628.93 and Rs. 102498.57, respectively. Per tonnes cost of production of sugarcane was higher as Rs. 1448.50 in manual harvesting method as compare to Rs. 1219.17 in mechanical harvesting method of sugarcane farm. The output-input ratios were 1.90 and 1.68 in mechanical harvesting method and manual harvesting method of sugarcane production. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | T07561 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810057658 | |
| dc.keywords | Socio-economic, Cropping, Cultivation, Harvesting, Sugarcane | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 93 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani | en_US |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Economics | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | AGRICULTURE | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Comparative economics of mechanical VIS-A-VIS manual harvesting of sugarcane in Latur district | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |