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ECONOMICS OF RICE PRODUCTION IN CHITWAN DISTRICT OF NEPAL

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Title ECONOMICS OF RICE PRODUCTION IN CHITWAN DISTRICT OF NEPAL
 
Creator SANTOSH NEUPANE
 
Contributor VASUDEV, N
 
Subject costs, manpower, irrigation, productivity, rice, marketing margins, irrigation canals, wells, yields, crops
CHITWAN, DISTRICT, NEPAL
 
Description The present study entitled “Economics of rice production in Chitwan district of
Nepal” was under taken to overview the benefit cost ratio, resource productivity and
resource use efficiency in rice production and to analyse the effect of climatic
parameters in rice production.
The study was undertaken in the Chitwan district of Nepal, which was
purposively selected for the study as rice is cultivated in considerable area in the
district. A sample size of 90 farmers were chosen for the present study consisting of
canal irrigated small farmers, bore well irrigated small farmers and rainfed marginal
farmers i.e. 30 farmers for each group . Three villages were purposively selected based
on the irrigation system they were following under the consultation of government
officials.
Majority of the rice farmers in the study area were found to be small and
marginal farmers. The rice varieties being cultivated were mostly the modern varieties
and local landraces varieties. Rice production in the study was found to be more human
labour intensive supported by the fact that human labour occupied the major proportion
of labour cost. The spread over of cost of cultivation to variable and fixed costs revealed
the fact that variable costs accounted more as compared to fixed costs. The farmers
were found to be resource poor farmers (APP, 2009).Rice productivity was found to be
less as compared to the cost incurred for rice production. The productivity ranged
between 32- 34 quintals per hectare.
The net returns was found to be higher for canal irrigated small farms followed
by bore well irrigated small farms and rainfed marginal farms. The results of the benefit
cost ratio indicated that rice production was beneficial under canal irrigated small farms
condition. The bore well irrigated small farms and rainfed marginal farms were of
subsistence in nature. The canal irrigated small farms were found out to be operating in
constant returns to scale whereas the bore well irrigated small farms and rainfed
marginal farms were operating in decreasing returns to scale. Human labour and FYM
were found to used in excess in all the three categories of farms i.e., canal irrigated
small farms, bore well irrigated small farms and rainfed marginal farms.
The climatic function analysis concluded that the climatic parameters i.e., actual
rainfall, mean max. temperature and mean min. temperature explained 33.45 %
variation in the rice production. The yield of rice for the past 20 years was found to be
of decreasing trend. The rainfall pattern was found more erratic and unpredictable.
Similarly, the mean max. temperature was found to be constantly increasing and the
mean min. temperature was found to be almost constant for the past 20 years
 
Date 2016-06-09T14:14:48Z
2016-06-09T14:14:48Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67128
 
Language en
 
Relation D8834;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY