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Does adoption of improved agricultural practices reduce production costs? Empirical evidence from Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh, India


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1 ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, India, India
2 ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, India, India
3 ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur 208 002, India, India
 

The present study assessed the effect of improved agricultural technologies disseminated under the ambitious Farmer FIRST Programme on production costs of major crops in Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh, India. The findings show that the average real cost during 2017–18 to 2020–21 declined, leading to an increase in the net return to cost ratio from farming. Technological interventions at the farmer’s field resulted in a gradual decline in the share of seed, fertilizer and plant protection chemicals in the cost of cultivation. The price elasticity of factors, estimated by fitting the translog function, suggests that policies for controlling input price inflation, particularly wage rate, will be imperative in reducing the cost of farming. The results on the elasticity of technical substitution between labour and machinery highlight the need for devising suitable farm mechanization strategies which may be affordable in the small farm situation as well. The panel data estimate of negative cost elasticity of yield indicates that productivity growth plays a vital role in absorbing the increase in production cost

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Agricultural practices, empirical framework, price elasticity, production cost, technological interven-tions.
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Bishwa Bhaskar Choudhary
ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, India, India
Purushottam Sharma
ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, India, India
Mukesh Choudhary
ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, India, India
Sunil Kumar
ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, India, India
R. P. Dwivedi
ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, India, India
H. S. Mahesha
ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, India, India
S. K. Singh
ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, India, India
Shantanu Kumar Dubey
ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Kanpur 208 002, India, India

Abstract


The present study assessed the effect of improved agricultural technologies disseminated under the ambitious Farmer FIRST Programme on production costs of major crops in Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh, India. The findings show that the average real cost during 2017–18 to 2020–21 declined, leading to an increase in the net return to cost ratio from farming. Technological interventions at the farmer’s field resulted in a gradual decline in the share of seed, fertilizer and plant protection chemicals in the cost of cultivation. The price elasticity of factors, estimated by fitting the translog function, suggests that policies for controlling input price inflation, particularly wage rate, will be imperative in reducing the cost of farming. The results on the elasticity of technical substitution between labour and machinery highlight the need for devising suitable farm mechanization strategies which may be affordable in the small farm situation as well. The panel data estimate of negative cost elasticity of yield indicates that productivity growth plays a vital role in absorbing the increase in production cost

Keywords


Agricultural practices, empirical framework, price elasticity, production cost, technological interven-tions.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv123%2Fi10%2F1232-1236