R.P.SinghSeema Bodra2024-09-102024-09-102004https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810214299Agriculture forms the backbone of the Indian economy and provides livelihood for more than 70 percent population of the country .Thus agriculture is the most important sector contributing about 26 percent of the gross product. It is the largest sector and provides not only food and raw material but also generate employment to a very large proportion of the population. Keeping this view, the present investigation was undertaken to study the comparative advantage of crop enterprises on different size of farms in Khijri block of Ranchi district .Two villages namely Dahu and Garsul of this black were selected randomly from the selected villages. The results obtained from the study revealed that, area under cereal crops was considerably higher as compared to vegetable crops on all size group of farms. It was also observed that the cropping intensity was higher (117.33%) on medium size group of farms. It was revealed that the average yield of vegetable crops was much higher as compared to cereal crops in all size groups of farms. The results revealed that the cost incurred in vegetable production was higher in respect to cereal production. It was due to the fact that vegetable production was more cost intensive than the cereals production. The results indicated that the gross return obtained from vegetable production was much higher as compared to cereal production in all size group of farms. It was also found that the net return obtained from vegetable production was much higher than that of the cereal production in all categories of farms. It was seen that the average return per rupee investment was higher (Rs.2.66) in vegetable crops as compared to cereal (Rs.1.21) crops. The result showed that the average employment of human labour per hectare was 356.78 mandays and 749.05 mandays on cereals and vegetables production respectively. This indicated that the more human labour engaged in vegetable production as compared to cereal production. It was revealed that the averge bullock labour employment per hectare was 86.00 bullock labour and 124.58 bullock labour in cereal and vegetable production respectively. Thus it was indicated that the employment of bullock labour was higher on vegetable production as compared to cereal production. As comparative picture of crop enterprises revealed that income and employment generation is much higher in vegetable production as compared to cereal production in the area under investigation.EnglishThesis