B.K.SinghMrityunjay Kumar Bhagtia2024-07-122024-07-121999https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810211874The last few decades have brought a perceptible transformation in agriculture in India. This transformation has been known as green revolution, characterized by chemical –biological mechanical innovation that have rapidly increased output and total farm income, with impressive growth in agriculture. Wider application of new farm technology has revolutionized the traditional farming in many part of the country to a business enterprises, finding high yielding verities, particularly wheat and paddy, more profitable than local one. Farmers of many parts of the country adopted them rapidly and this led to a perceptible increase in their farm income. The present study aims at finding the shares of four different factors namely farm size, human labour and capital in total farm income on different sizes of farms (small, medium and large) on the sample villages of Gota Block of Hazaribagh district. It also aims at findings the inequality in distribution of farm income on different size groups of farms taken together arising due to differential adoption of new farm technologies, size of holdings, cultivation practices, financial status etc. The results obtained from this study revealed that paddy was the most important crop of the region for all size group of farms. The share of local and high yielding varieties under paddy were 27.56 and 32.98 per cent for large farms, 28.89 and 33.84 per cent for medium farms and 45.89 and 19.98 for small farms in the cropl year 1997-98. The cropping intensities of different size groups of farms were also different and it were 140.33 for large farms, 143.49 for medium farms and 183.73 for small farms. The analysis of factor shares indicated that for all size Group of farms, size of holding had maximum contribution on gross return of the farm i.e. 33.97 per cent for large, 37.55 per cent for medium and 42.34 per cent for small size groups of farms. Second highest contributors in gross return were capital (25.11%) for large farms, human labour for both medium (27.16 %) and small (29.43%) size groups of farms. The third contributors were human labour for large farms (21.31%), capital for medium farms (19.41%) and bullock labour for small farms (14.99%). The analysis of factor ratios indicated that large farms were more capital intensive and less labour intensive where as small farms were more labour intensive e and less capital intensive. Medium farms lied some where between these two which can be revealed best by their respective capital/labour ratios i.e. 2.96 for large farms, 2.57 for medium farms and 2.09 for small farms. This was the reason why the large farms got proportionally more income than medium and small size groups of farms. Further, the inequality in distribution of farm income, as it was found from analysis of data, was due to skewness in size of holding (29.40%), interaction of size of holding with human labour (17.93%) and interaction of human labour with capital (10.14%).EnglishThesis