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ECONOMICS OF GROUNDNUT SEED PRODUCTION VIS-A-VIS COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION IN KURNOOL DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

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Title ECONOMICS OF GROUNDNUT SEED PRODUCTION VIS-A-VIS COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION IN KURNOOL DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Creator SOWJANYA, G.V
 
Contributor BHAVANI DEVI, I
 
Subject costs, sowing, groundnuts, productivity, markets, commercial farming, manpower, economics, marketing, tillage equipment
KURNOOL DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Description The present study entitled “ECONOMICS OF GROUNDNUT SEED PRODUCTION VIS–A–VIS COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION IN KURNOOL DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH” was intended to examine costs and returns, technical efficiency, marketing practices, price spread and constraints of production and marketing on seed and commercial groundnut farms.
Kurnool district was purposively selected for the present study as it ranks second in the area (373 thousand hectares) and third in the production (228 thousand tonnes) of groundnut in Andhra Pradesh. Out of 53 mandals in Kurnool district, four mandals namely Kurnool, Aluru, Kodumur and Kowthalam which stood first, second, third and fourth in terms of acerage under groundnut were selected purposively for the present study. Two top villages from each selected mandal were chosen to make total number of
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sample villages to 8. The selected villages were Ulchala and Basapuram from Kurnool mandal, Hathibelagal and Hulabeedu from Aluru mandal, Varkuru and Kallapari from Kodumur mandal and Melaganur and Sulekeri from Kowthalam mandal. All the farmers in selected villages were stratified into seed and commercial farmers of groundnut production.
List of farmers growing groundnut for seed and commercial purpose in the selected 8 villages was prepared separately for the two categories. From the lists so prepared 60 seed farmers and 60 commercial farmers were selected at random, thus making the total sample size to 120 groundnut farmers. The data were collected for the agricultural year 2008-09 through survey method. Both tabular and linear programming technique (DEA) were employed to analyse the set objectives. An opinion survey was conducted to identify the constraints in production and marketing of groundnut.
The area under rainfed groundnut, on seed and commercial farms was 3.26 hectares and 2.40 hectares respectively. The proportionate area allocated for rainfed groundnut cultivation appeared to be lesser on commercial farms compared to seed farms. Total human labour utilized was 100 (100.00 percent) and 82 (100.00 per cent) man days per hectare on seed and commercial groundnut farms. On an average, the total cost of cultivation per hectare of rainfed groundnut crop was Rs. 34,638.86 on seed farms and Rs. 26,827 on commercial farms. Cost per quintal of groundnut was marginally high on seed farms at Rs. 2,388.89 compared to Rs. 2,384.63 on commercial farms. The seed and commercial farms realized a gross income of Rs. 48,701 and Rs. 36,412 per hectare respectively. The net income was high on seed farms (Rs. 14,062.14) compared to Rs. 9,585 per hectare on commercial farms.
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was carried out to examine the overall technical efficiency (OTE), pure technical efficiency (PTE), scale
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efficiency (SE) and congestion efficiency (CE). Between seed farms and commercial farms of groundnut, seed farms were better off in respect of OTE and PTE, while, commercial farms were relatively better in respect of SE and CE.
The analysis of price spread in groundnut marketing revealed that the producer was getting higher share of consumer’s rupee in Channel I (78.28 per cent) than that of Channel II (67.97 per cent). Major problem putforth by both seed farmers and commercial groundnut farmers was labour shortage during the crop growth period. Non-availability of HYV seed was a problem as ventilated by 43.33 per cent of seed farmers and a phenominal 70 per cent of commercial groundnut farmers.
 
Date 2016-06-04T10:06:09Z
2016-06-04T10:06:09Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66745
 
Language en
 
Relation D8983;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY