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Rationality of the use of factors of production by small trawlers along Calicut coast

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Title Rationality of the use of factors of production by small trawlers along Calicut coast
 
Creator Panikkar, K K P
Srinath, M
 
Subject Fishing
Fisheries Statistics
Estimation
 
Description The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the economic rationale of input use by small
trawlers in Kerala Coast. In order to estimate the production elasticities of different inputs, a Cobb-
Douglas type of production function was fitted to the pooled data on coast and earnings of 50 trawlers
for a period of 10 years from 1971-72 to 1980-81, obtained from Kozhikode Regional Fish Marketing
Co-operative Society. For functional analysis, vessel-wise gross returns (in rupees) was taken as
dependent variable and number of days fished, fuel expenditure (in rupees) and repairing and maintenance
charges (in rupees) as independent variables. Marginality analysis was also done to evaluate
the eflSciency of input use.
The production function as well as the marginality analysis indicated that the increase in the
number of days fished would lead to higher gross income. So also increase in oil expenditure from
mean level would yield a more than proportionate increase in gross income. However, repairing
and maintenance cost had a negative impact on fishing income which indicated that the vessel owner in
his own interest should be cautious in the operation to avoid frequent repairs and to reduce the delay
in getting the vessels repaired.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1991
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/837/1/jmbai_33_194.pdf
Panikkar, K K P and Srinath, M (1991) Rationality of the use of factors of production by small trawlers along Calicut coast. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 33 (1&2). pp. 194-197.