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IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF HYBRID RICE TECHNOLOGY

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Title IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF HYBRID RICE TECHNOLOGY
 
Creator NIRMALA, B
 
Contributor VASUDEV, N
 
Subject IMPACT, ASSESSMENT, HYBRID, RICE, TECHNOLOGY
 
Description Rice is the staple food crop of India, providing 30 % of calorie requirement for
more than 70 % of Indian population. It occupies highest area among the crops grown in
the country. India stands first in rice area with 41.85 million hectares
(m ha) and second in production with 89.13 million tons (m t) after China (196 m t). To
meet the demands of increasing population the present production level of around 90
million tons, needs to be increased up to 120 million tons by the year 2020. To achieve
this production, hybrid rice technology is the most feasible and readily adoptable option,
among the various genetic approaches possible, as has been amply demonstrated in the
People’s Republic of China, during the last two decades. During the year 2010, hybrid
rice was planted in an area of 1.3 m ha and additional rice production of 1.5 to 2.5 m t
was added to our food basket through this technology (Hariprasad et al. 2011). Since
hybrid rice technology is likely to play a key role in increasing the rice production, the
present study was conducted with the following objectives:
1. To assess the impact of hybrid rice technology on productivity
2. To analyze the impact of hybrid rice technology on household income and
employment
3. To document the constraints in adoption of hybrid rice technology
4. To work out the economics of hybrid rice seed production technology

Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand have been selected to assess the impact of hybrid
rice technology, as these are the major hybrid rice growing states of the country. The
state of Andhra Pradesh has been selected to study the economics of hybrid rice seed
production. Two districts from each of the two selected states viz., Uttar Pradesh and
Jharkhand were selected purposively. Ambedkar nagar and Bahraich districts of Uttar
Pradesh and Ranchi and Khunti districts of Jharkhand were purposively selected as
hybrid rice accounts for majority of rice area in these districts.
The yield hike due to hybrid rice cultivation was 26.43 per cent and 49.27 per
cent when compared to HYV rice cultivation in case of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand
respectively. The total returns obtained per hectare were 12.66 per cent and 29.72 per
cent higher for hybrid rice than the HYV rice cultivation in case of Uttar Pradesh and
Jharkhand respectively.
Out of the hundred sample rice farmers in Uttar Pradesh, 67 percent are very
efficient, i.e., more than 90 per cent technically efficient in hybrid rice cultivation,
whereas for HYV rice only 44 per cent were operating with more than 90 per cent
technical efficiency. Sixty one per cent of the sample farmers who cultivated hybrid rice
were above 90 per cent technical efficiency in case of Jharkhand and 33 per cent were
more than 90 per cent technically efficient for HYV rice.
The gini coefficient for Uttar Pradesh was 0.14 for HYV rice cultivation and
0.07 for hybrid rice cultivation. In case of Jharkhand gini coefficient for HYV rice
cultivation was 0.32 and the value got reduced to 0.05 for hybrid rice cultivation.
The average net returns obtained from hybrid rice seed production per hectare in
Andhra Pradesh were around 130 per cent higher when compared to average net returns
obtained from HYV rice cultivation. The relative importance of the discriminators
revealed that machinery labour, bullock labour, human labour, plant protection chemical
and fertilisers contributed mostly to discriminate between the two groups of hybrid rice
seed production and HYV rice cultivation by the sample farmers in Andhra Pradesh.
The number of farmers willing to continue hybrid rice next season were more in
both Khunti and Ranchi districts of Jharkhand when compared to Ambedkarnagar and
Bahraich districts of Uttar Pradesh. This may be due to the fact that in Jharkhand, where
majority of the farmers are having small holdings of half to one acre and growing rice
for household consumption and have distinct preference for hybrid rice.
 
Date 2016-06-09T10:30:16Z
2016-06-09T10:30:16Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67067
 
Language en
 
Relation D9094;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G.RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERISTY