Economic Evaluation of Different Faming Systems in District Lucknow of Uttar Pradesh

The investigation was carried out during 2007-08 in district of Lucknow to evaluate the different farming system in context to income and employment generation. The complete economic evaluation of different farming systems at selected farmers revealed that six major components/enterprises of farming systems were popular and in adoption to the selected farmer viz., crop husbandry, dairy, vegetable, poultry, goatary and apiary. The crop husbandry and dairy enterprises were usually of common practice in adoption of all the selected farmers. Component wise vegetable farming was most remunerative venture among all. Crop husbandry ranked second, dairy have third position, goat rearing on fourth, apiary on fifth and poultry farming was on sixth position on the basis of return in the study area. The system wise, crop+dairy+vegetables farming system fetched highest net return of Rs. 31720 and 254 days of human employment ranked first in income as well as employment point of view. While crops+dairy+goatary system ranked second with a net return of Rs. 20285. Crops+dairy+apiary farming system reflected Rs. 16566 as net income with third position while crops+dairy+poultry farming system earned lowest net profit of Rs. 16234 but created 231 days of employment and ranked second on the basis of employment generation among all four prevailing farming system in the study area.