An economic analysis of Mentha cultivation in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh
| dc.contributor.advisor | Singh, Virendra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Choudhary, Harshika | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-18T11:38:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-10-18T11:38:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | India is considered to be the ancient home of perfumes and aromatic plants because it is blessed with a wide variety of soil and climatic conditions which support the enormous plant wealth. Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are receiving considerable attention all over the world because of their vast untapped economic potential, especially in the use of herbal medicines. The Mentha arvensis (menthol mint) is an important essential oil bearing plant and widely used in food, flavour, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Amongst the Aromatic crops, mentha is important crop as India is the largest producer, consumer as well as exporter of mentha. The low crop productivity and poor resource-use efficiency discourage growers to give boost to mentha production. The major problems confronted by farmers in production of mentha are poor technical guidance, inadequate distillation facility and minimum support from government. The present study was conducted in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh with the objectives to examine the socioeconomic status, estimate the costs and returns, resource use efficiency and to identify and rank the constraints faced by mentha growing farmers in mentha cultivation. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select blocks, villages and the respondants from the four villages of two blocks in Rampur district. A pooled list of all mentha growers was prepared for all selected villages. Then the farmers were classified into small (2-5 acres), medium (5-10 acres) and large (above 10 acres) size groups and a sample of 60 farmers was obtained using probability proportion to size method. The collection of required primary data pertaining to the year 2011-12 was done using a pre-structural survey schedule. Simple statistical tools were used to examine the socio-economic status, cost concepts as given by CACP were used to study the costs and returns in mentha cultivation. Cobb-Douglas production function was estimated to estimate the resource use efficiency and Garrett ranking technique was employed to identify and rank the constraints faced by farmers. The results revealed that majority of mentha growing farmers were in the middle age group (31–50 years) at aggregate level. Average family size at aggregate level was 5.01. The majority of the farmers were educated (86.67). The major investment item was tractor, which on aggregate level covers 47.81 per cent of total investment. Farm building and storage structure contributes 29.18 per cent at aggregate level. The total cost of cultivation i.e. cost D was estimated to be Rs.64181 per ha at aggregate level. The highest per ha total cost of mentha cultivation (Rs.65050 per ha) was recorded on small farms while the lowest (Rs.62472 per ha) on large farms, attributed to scale economies realized on large farms in input use and bulk purchase on large farms. The net return over total cost (cost D) was found to be the highest on large farms with Rs.20215 per ha; followed by medium and small size group of farms with Rs.15071 and Rs.13849 net returns, respectively. The coefficient of multiple determination (R2) that the explanatory variables included in the model are responsible for 75 per cent, 76 per cent, 81 per cent and 77 per cent variation in per hectare output on small, medium, large farm size groups and at aggregate level, respectively. Variables viz. Suckers, human labour and distillation were found to be significant on aggregate level. The high cost of good quality distillation machine, lack of awareness about export market , multiplicity of intermediaries between farmers and processors/industries, lack of regulated marketing system etc. were reported to be the most severe production, marketing and infrastructural and institutional constraints faced by the mentha growing farmers of the study area. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810081746 | |
| dc.keywords | economic analysis, mentha, Uttar Pradesh | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 129 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand) | en_US |
| dc.research.problem | Mentha | en_US |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Economics | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Economic Analysis | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | An economic analysis of Mentha cultivation in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |