Agriculture Update

A. K. Vitonde ¹, R. D. Vaidkar ¹, R. B. Pethkar ¹, A. D. Chauhan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN

Abstract

The survey was conducted in the year 2006-07 by way of selecting 100 milk producers randomly from four villages of Wardha district of Maharahstra. The data were analyzed for socio economic characteristics of milk producers, management practices and economics of milk production. The annual maintenance cost of buffalo was more than cow. Feed and fodder was the major items of expenditure in milk production. Overall gross income, net cost and net income per animal per year was Rs. 25045.19, Rs. 19420.76 and Rs. 2294.28, respectively in case of cow and in buffalo Rs. 29726.13, Rs. 22616.28 and Rs. 3660.90 with per litre cost of production Rs. 11.21 and Rs. 14.69 in cow and buffalo, respectively. The buffalo was more profitable than cow and hence adoption of recommended practices was more in buffalo.

Keywords

Dairy Interprise, Feeding, Grazing.

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A. K. Vitonde ¹, R. D. Vaidkar ², P. S. Dharpal ³, J. V. Harne ⁴

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN
2 Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.), IN
3 Rural Institute, Wardha (M.S.), IN
4 Shri Shivaji College of Horticulture, Amravati (M.S.), IN

Abstract

The study was prominently prosecuted to deal with the needs of the farmers in respect of short term agricultural credit and its provisions and utilization. The necessary data during the year 1995-96 were collected from 75 farmers belonging to 5 villages of Amravati District and then analyzed the said data.
The average actual credit gap per hectare based on the average cost of cultivation for cotton varieties namely AHH-468, AKH-4, LRA-5166, H-4 were Rs. 1966.80, 944.27, 1689.39, 1883.48 and for jowar varieties namely CSH-5, CSH-9 were Rs. 1778.26, 1581.98 respectively and for groundnut variety JL-24 was Rs. 1219.54. Similarly, the average credit gap per hectare under modern technology amounted to Rs. 2130.31, 1946.34, 1823.57, 2162.69, 1528.16, 2448.99, 1569.07 for the cultivation of cotton varieties namely AHH-468, AKH-4, LRA-5166, H-4 and jowar varieties CSH-5, CSH-9 and groundnut variety JL-24, respectively.

Keywords

Credit, Credit Utilization, Repayment Pattern, Cost of Cultivation.

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A. K. Vitonde ¹, R. D. Vaidkar ², P. V. Chaudhari ³, D. S. Rangacharya ⁴

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN
2 Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.), IN
3 Department of Agricultural Economics, SSAC, Amravati (M.S.), IN
4 Vidya Bharti Mahavidyalaya, Amravati (M.S.), IN

Abstract

This study was conducted in Amravati and Bhatkuli Tahsils of Amravati district and five villages from each tahsil which were adopting sorghum based cropping systems. The data was collected for the year 2008-2009 from 24 cultivators for each system randomly. The ratio return over the investment at cost ‘A’ were 2.34, 2.58, 2.47, 2.42, 2.64 and at cost ‘B’, the ratio were 1.64, 1.85, 1.71, 1.68, 1.83 respectively for sole sorghum, sorghum+tur, sorghum+soybean, sorghum+cotton, sorghum+green gram. In case of sorghum+tur, the ratio at cost ‘C’ showed higher (i.e. 1.95) and lower in sole sorghum (i.e. 1.39). Thus, the study indicated that the sorghum+tur was found to be most profitable cropping system followed by sorghum+cotton cropping system.

Keywords

Cropping System, Economic Evaluation, Capital Investment, Input Utilization.

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