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Regional imbalances and impact of soil health card on fertilizer consumption in Gujarat

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Title Regional imbalances and impact of soil health card on fertilizer consumption in Gujarat
 
Creator Makadia, Jayantilal J
 
Contributor Patel, K.S.
 
Subject economics, biological development, productivity, area, investment, imports, manpower, exports, additives, crops
 
Description The present study was undertaken with a view to assess the growth in fertilizer consumption and fertilizer use pattern, to examine the gap between actual use and recommended dose of
fertilizer, to study the determinants of fertilizer use, to estimate the fertilizer use efficiency and to study the impact of Soil Health Card on consumption of fertilizer in South Gujarat region. Multistage random sampling technique was used for sample selection. Total sample size comprised of 224 farmers with 50-50 per cent from with and without Soil Health Cards. The primary data were collected for the agricultural year 2010-11 by survey method.
The results of the study revealed that among all the crops in South Gujarat region, the highest area was allocated to sugarcane crop, followed by kharif paddy and summerpaddy.
Among the regions, Middle Gujarat stood at top in consumption of N during all periods and Kutchh stood at the bottom. During the Period–I, IV and VI, the consumption of N fertilizer significantly increased in all the regions of Gujarat state. During Period–II and Period-III, the consumption of N increased significantly in all regions except Saurashtra region. Gujarat as a
whole, the consumption of N increased significantly during PeriodIV. During Period–V, the consumption of N increased significantly in all regions along with Gujarat as a whole and the lowest instability index was found in South Gujarat region.
The consumption of P fertilizer significantly increased in all the regions along with Gujarat as a whole during Period-I. During Period–II, the consumption of P increased significantly only in North Gujarat region. The lowest instability index was found in South Gujarat region (29.07%). During Period–III, the consumption of P increased significantly in all regions except,Saurashtra region. During Period–IV, the compound growth rates were found positive but non-significant in all the regions. During Period–V, the consumption of P increased significantly in North Gujarat and Kutchh regions. For whole period, the consumption of P increased significantly in all regions. The lowest instability index was found in South Gujarat region (29.14%).
During the Period-I, the consumption of K fertilizer was not reported in any regions of Gujarat State. During Period–II, the consumption of K increased significantly in Saurashtra, North
Gujarat, Kutchh and Gujarat as a whole. During Period–III, the consumption of K increased significantly only in Saurashtra region. During Period–IV, the consumption of K increased positively in all regions except Saurashtra region. During Period–V, the consumption of K increased significantly in North Gujarat and Middle Gujarat with negative growth rate in Saurashtra.Gujarat as a whole, consumption of K increased significantly. For whole period, consumption of K increased significantly in all regions
except North Gujarat. Gujarat as a whole, consumption of K increased significantly.
The consumption of NPK fertilizer significantly increased in all the regions of Gujarat state along with Gujarat as a whole during Period-I. During Period–II, the consumption of NPK increased significantly in North Gujarat, South Gujarat, Kutchh and Gujarat as a whole. During Period–III, IV and V, the consumption of NPK increased significantly in all regions except, Saurashtra region. The
lowest instability index was found in South Gujarat region during Period-III. During whole period, consumption of NPK increased significantly in all regions.
The compound growth rates of gap for N were found negative and significant for Period-I, III and VI for South Gujarat region. This gap was positive for the Period-IV and V but it was found
statistically non-significant. In North Gujarat region, the compound growth rates of gap for N were found negative and significant in last three Periods. In Saurashtra region, the compound growthrates of
gap for N were found negative and statistically significant for the last four Periods. In Middle Gujarat region, the compound growth rates of gap for N were found negative and statistically significant
for all the Periods except, Period-II. In case of Kutchh region, the compound growth rates of gap for N were found negative and statistically significant for Period-I and Period-IV. The compound
growth rates of gap for N were found negative and significant for all the periods, except Period-II for entire Gujarat.
The compound growth rates of gap for P were found negative and significant for Period- III and Period-VI for South Gujarat region. For rest of the Periods, it was found positive but non-
significant. In North Gujarat region, the compound growth rates of gap for P were found negative and significant for all the Periods except, Period-I. In case of Saurashtra region, the compound
growth rates were found negative in all the periods except, PeriodIII. And it was statistically significant for Period-I, II, V and VI. In Middle Gujarat, the compound growth rates were negative in
Period-I, III, V and VI and statistically significant in Period-III. In case of Kutchh region, the compound growth rates were negative and non-significant in last four Periods. For the state as a whole, the compound growth rates were found negative for all the periods but statistically significant in Period-III, V and VI.
The compound growth rate of gap for K was found negative and statistically significant only for the Period-III in South Gujarat region. In North Gujarat region, the compound growth rates were found negative and statistically significant only in Period-II. In case of Saurashtra region, the compound growth rates were found negative and statistically significant only in Period-II and found
positive and statistically significant for Period-I and III. In Middle Gujarat, the compound growth rate was found negative and statistically significant only in Period-V. For Kutchh region, the compound growth rates were found negative and significant in Period-II, III and VI. For the state as a whole, the compound growth rate was negative and statistically significant for Period-II only.
The compound growth rate of gap for NPK fertilizers in the South Gujarat region was found negative and significant in PeriodIII and VI. In North Gujarat region, the compound growth rates
were found negative and significant for Period-IV, V and VI. In Middle Gujarat, the compound growth rates of gap for NPK fertilizers were negative and significant for the Period-I, III, IV and VI. In case of Kutchh region, the compound growth rate wasfound negative and significant only in Period-IV. In case of Gujarat state v as a whole, the compound growth rates were negative and
significant for all the periods except Period-II.
The production function analysis employed for determinants of fertilizer use indicated that annual total income of farmers, short term credit , one year lagged price and educational level were found
the major influencing factors for determining the level of fertilizers use in selected crops in general, for with and without Soil Health Card farmers.
The production function analysis employed for fertilizer use efficiency indicated that there existed a variation in the production elasticities of resource inputs between the crops and groups of farmers under study. In general, area under the crop, human labours, phosphorus and other working capital were the important resource variables positively and significantly influencing the crop output in general for with and without Soil Health Card farmers. The nitrogen and manure showed the negative and significant effect on crops output when farmers used these resources excessively.
The paired ‘ t ’ test analysis showed positive and significant impact of Soil Health Card on per hectare yield of selected crops.
Generally, with Soil Health Card farmers utilized the fertilizers judiciously as per the recommendation of Soil Health Card. The findings of the study advocates strengthening of extension
and line department machineries to provide Soil Health Cards to remaining farmers and provide technical guidance to farmers. The emphasis should be given by the concern departments to wide
spread the utilization of machineries for harvesting of sugarcane and paddy due to acute shortage of labours.
 
Date 2016-05-26T11:02:55Z
2016-05-26T11:02:55Z
2012
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66334
 
Language en
 
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Publisher NAU