Resource Use Efficiency in Sericulture - An Inter Group Analysis

Constrained by limited resources, the sericulturists often fail to achieve the optimum level of income, mainly due to their inability in making judicious allocation of resources at their disposal. The study attempts to identify some of the major factors of production (both in mulberry cultivation and rearing of silk worm) in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. one of the three major sericultuyal distriels in the State. The significant inputs for different size groups (classified on the basis of total operational land holding) have been idemified The study idemifies that though organic manure, irrigation, labour (in cultivation of mulberry plant), purchase of Disease Free Layings (DFLs) and rearing appliances are the most common and significant factors of production in the district, judicious allocation of inputs is the need of the hour. Input use efficiency of the various factors of production has been judged with the help of Marginal Value Productivity(MVP) concept.