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Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency

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Title Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency
 
Creator Reddy, A A
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Appropriate choice of cropping systems to local agro-ecology
increases profitability and employment. The increased labour shortage and redced
profitability are growing concerns to the farmers. Keeping this, the paper written with the
following objectives: i) To assess the profitability among different cropping systems in the
semi-arid tropics; ii) To assess the labour use pattern among different cropping systems and
farm size; iii) To determine the resource use efficiency of the different cropping systems in
the SAT India; and finally iv) To assess the influence of regional/local factors on incomes of
farmers in the SAT India. The study used plot wise data collected from 16 villages from four
states namely Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat for the crop year 2010
for an in-depth analysis of the profitability and labour use among different cropping systems
in semi-arid tropics of India. And it also estimated the resource use efficiency especially
labour across different farm size groups in the SAT India and finally to assess the influence
of regional/local factors on profitability of farmers. The study shows that input intensive
cropping systems like cotton, paddy, wheat, fruits and vegetables based cropping systems are
more profitable across many of the SAT villages compared to coarse cereals, pulses and
oilseeds based cropping systems. Moreover, the area under these cropping systems is
increased in the dry lands due to the introduction of Bt cotton varieties, short duration
varieties, price incentives and subsidies. Although pulses based cropping systems remain
attractive due to higher prices and less labour requirement, needs to provide incentives to
increase area given its environmental benefits in enriching the soil. Most of the villages are
experiencing the shortage of labour as indicated by higher marginal productivity of labour
and increasing trend of mechanisation. Farm size is having positive association with the
hired labour use and farm mechanisation, but having negative association with family
labour. Female employment has inverted “U” shape relation with farm size. This indicates
that the farms with more than five hectares of land are detrimental to women employment as
farm mechanization in large farms replaces women labour
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7342/1/MPRA_paper_52790.pdf
Reddy, A A (2013) Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency. MPRA Paper. pp. 1-22.