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Cost, Returns and Profitability of Bt-Cotton Production in Beed District
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Investigation was carried out during the year 2013-14. About 96 Bt-cotton growers were randomly selected from twelve villages of two tehsils of beed district of Maharashtra. Cross sectional data were collected from Bt-cotton grower with the help of pretested schedule by personal interview method. The techniques like mean, percentage, ratio and cost concept of Cost- A, Cost-B and Cost-C were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that per hectare cost of cultivation of Bt-cotton was Rs. 67137.76. Among individual items of expenditure, the share of rental value of land was 31.85 per cent followed by hired human labour (13.79 %), bullock labour (9.21), irrigation (8.17%), seed (7.51%), fertilizers (6.19%), family human labour (5.64 %), manure (5.45%), plant protection (3.75%), machine labour (2.15 %), respectively. Per hectare gross returns and net profit was Rs. 129111.85 and Rs. 61974.09, respectively. Output-input ratio was 1.92.
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Bt-Cotton, Cost-C, Gross Return, Net Profit.
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