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AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF SEED AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF PADDY IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

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Title AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF SEED AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF PADDY IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Creator SAIRAM, NEMALIPURI
 
Contributor SUBBA REDDY, S
 
Subject insurance, crops, crop insurance, rice, marketing, precipitation, environmental degradation, economics, area, policies
CHITTOOR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Description The present study entitled “An economic study of seed and commercial production of paddy in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh” was intended to examine costs and returns, resource productivity and allocative efficiency in seed and non-seed cultivation of paddy. Multi stage purposive cum random sampling technique was adopted for the selection of district, mandals, villages and the farmers. The sample of 80 farmers consisting of seed and non-seed growers was selected at random from six villages. The primary data for the year 2009-2010 were collected through a pretested schedule by survey method. Both conventional and functional analysis were used to analyse the data and to arrive at valid conclusions.
The total human labour employment on paddy seed farms was 61.8 mandays per hectare as against 59.28 mandays on non-seed farms.
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On an average the per hectare cost of cultivation in seed production (Rs. 42,855.19) was higher than that of commercial cultivation of paddy (Rs. 40,769.65).
Rental value of owned land was the highest cost component on seed and non-seed farms. Human labour, manures and fertilizers, tractor power and seed were major items of expenditure accounting for 51.59 per cent of the total costs.
The gross and net returns per hectare of seed and non-seed farms were Rs. 81,000 and Rs. 38,144.81, Rs. 67,000 and Rs. 26,230.35 respectively. The returns per rupee of investment were also higher on seed farms (Rs. 0.89) compared to non-seed farms (Rs. 0.64).
The regression analysis indicated that all the four variables viz., human labour, machine power, manures and fertilizers included in the model except manures on non-seed farms contributed to the increase in the yields on seed and non-seed farms.
 
Date 2016-06-04T10:11:35Z
2016-06-04T10:11:35Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66749
 
Language en
 
Relation D8985;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY