Bishnoi, Dalip KumarAshu2018-01-242018-01-242017http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810039782The study on “an economic analysis of potato seed production under contact farming in Haryana” was undertaken with the following specific objectives; (i) To work out cost & return from potato seed production in Haryana (ii) To examine the resource use efficiency of important inputs and their impact on yield. (iii) To identify constraints faced by potato seed growers. The study was based on primary as well as secondary data. The primary data was collected from the 90 (45 contact farmers and 45 non-contract farmers) selected farmers of Karnal district of Haryana while, the secondary data was collected from the National Horticulture Research Development Foundation (New Delhi), Directorate of Horticulture research (Panchkula), National Horticulture Board (Gurugram) and AGMARKET online source in regarding of area, productivity, production and market price, respectively. The cost of cultivation analysis for potato seed production revealed that rental value of land and seed were higher in contract as well as non-contract farming while; cost of plant protection chemicals was higher in contract farming as compare to non-contract farming. However, cost of fertilizer was observed higher in non-contract farming. It was observed that per acre yield, gross return and net return was almost double in contract farming as compare on non-contract farming. From the study it has been revealed that in contract farming, the regression coefficients for the variables namely human labour, seed and plant protection charges were significantly negative whereas the for fertilizer and organic manure significant positive regression coefficient was reported. The price uncertainty ratio for non-contract and contract farming reveals that there is higher price risk under non-contract farming. The main reason for higher price uncertainty ratio for non-contract farming may be due to much variation in price of potato seeds in the market depending upon its quality and quantity marketed, place and location of sale, marketing channel and means of transportation etc. Results indicate that yield risk is higher in non-contract farming than that of contract farming. The lower yield risk in contract farming may be due to the fact that the contract farmers had used good quality seeds. These results further advocate the superiority of contact farming system over the non-contract faming in yield and price uncertainty of potato seed production. To achieve higher productivity of potato seeds, there is vast scope for the contract farming in the study area. Farmers has adopted contract farming mainly due to gain of higher income and good quality of inputs supplied by contractual agency. Moreover, the main reason for non-adoption of contract farming was mainly pertained to gap in communication delivery system in regards of the benefits of contract farming.ennullThesis