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ECONOMICS OF PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING OF MANGO IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

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Title ECONOMICS OF PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING OF MANGO IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Creator AMIT KUMAR DASH
 
Contributor RAGHURAM, P
 
Subject costs, mangoes, manpower, orchards, economics, planting, land resources, physical control, fruits, productivity
CHITTOOR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Description The present study entitled “ECONOMICS OF PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING OF MANGO IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH” was undertaken mainly to study the costs and returns and economic feasibility of mango cultivation, along with processing aspects. The study was undertaken in Chittoor district, which was purposively selected for the study as it has highest area under mango in Andhra Pradesh. Six mandals with highest area under mango were purposively selected. Two villages from each selected mandal were chosen and 80 farmers from the selected villages were randomly chosen for studying the production aspects of mango. From the list of 75 processing units, 12 processing units were randomly selected.
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Tabular analysis and discounted project evaluation techniques were used to study costs, returns, economic feasibility of the mango orchard and costs and returns in mango processing.
The total human labour utilization per hectare of mango orchard was 3343.55 man days during its economic life period of 40 years. Harvesting was the most labour absorbing operation with 1089.29 man days (32.57 per cent) followed by watch and ward with 997.72 man days (29.84 per cent) respectively.
The total cost of cultivation per hectare of mango orchard was Rs.1677974.38. The gross and net returns obtained per hectare of orchard during its economic life period of 40 years were Rs.5917160 and Rs.4299224.83 respectively.
The calculated NPV, B-C ratio and profitability index at a higher discount rate of 20 per cent were Rs.33043.89, 1.15 and 0.3669 respectively. Internal rate of return stood at 23.17 per cent. All these measures indicated economic feasibility of investment in mango orchard.
The total investment was Rs.226.09 lakh on canning and processing units and Rs.376.40 lakh on medium scale aseptic processing units.
Total cost of mango processing amounted to Rs.73.24 lakh in small scale canning units and Rs.642.53 lakh in medium scale aseptic processing units.
The net returns were found to be Rs.257.47 lakh in medium scale units and Rs.18.76 lakh in small scale units.
 
Date 2016-06-04T10:03:35Z
2016-06-04T10:03:35Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66744
 
Language en
 
Relation D8982;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY