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Agro-processing of commercial crops in western Haryana-an economic analysis

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Title Agro-processing of commercial crops in western Haryana-an economic analysis
 
Creator Deepak Singh
 
Contributor Malik, Dharmpal
 
Subject Fruits, Bacteria, Sampling, Fungi, Vegetables, Irrigation, Fruit vegetables, Chlorination, Storage, Harvesting
 
Description Processing of farm products offers great scope, conversion of
farm produce to the consumer commodity and in process reduces
the wastage, increasing shelf-life, resulting in value addition and
higher income transfer to the farmer. The present investigation is
based on the time series data pertaining to area, production, yield
and market arrivals of major crops scanned from published sources. The information with regards to machinery & equipments, labour,
various inputs like raw material, oil & greasing, electricity/fuel,
packaging & miscellaneous etc., outputs, input-output prices and
constraints encountered in processing of agricultural produce was
collected from sixty agro-processors from the Hisar and Bhiwani
districts of Haryana state through personal interviewing them.
Appropriate analytical tools and techniques were employed to draw
meaningful inferences from the study.
The results reveal that area twisted towards more
remunerative crops wheat, paddy, cotton, rapeseed-mustard and
sugarcane in Haryana state. The crop acreage shifted towards
wheat, cotton and rapeseed-mustard in Bhiwani district while there
was a shift in area towards wheat, paddy, cotton, rapeseed-mustard
and sugarcane. The area under gram, other pulses, and coarse
cereals was gradually replaced by profitable and less risky crops.
Production of wheat, paddy, cotton, rapeseed-mustard increased in
the study area as a composite effect of increased area and enhance
productivity. The yield of almost crops registered increase over the
time period due to evolution and cultivation of high yielding
varieties, use of improved farm practices, use of chemical fertilizers,
and efficient use of available irrigation water and mechanization of
farm operation. The increased production of wheat, paddy, cotton
and rapeseed-mustard resulted into increase in their market
arrivals. The value of Benefit-cost ratio calculated of processing units
of commercial crops i.e. cotton, rapeseed-mustard and gram was more than one. It indicates the economics viability of processing
units in the study area. The break-even analysis also indicates that
all processing units were operating more than the break-even
quantity. The cotton, gram and rapeseed-mustard processing units
utilized about 26, 34 and 74 percent of their plant capacity to the
maximum extent. Among selected processing units, the cotton
processing unit provides maximum employment of skilled labour
and casual labour in the study area. The major problems
encountered by the agro-processing units were getting no-objection
certificate, license from Govt. department, difficulties in getting
power connection, higher rate of interest and inadequate amount of
credit, irregular supply of raw material, higher marketing charges,
higher rate of electricity/fuel charges, lack of technical manpower
and under utilization of installed capacity of the unit. First Govt.
should take necessary step to mitigate the constraints of
agro-processing units and encourage the establishment of
processing units in the rural area through providing some incentives
to absorb surplus rural work force.
 
Date 2016-11-23T11:26:44Z
2016-11-23T11:26:44Z
2007
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/87191
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU