Economic analysis of Paddy produccaiton in Meerut district of Western Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Rice is the most important crop in India, which played a critical role in food security. It is the important staple food for more than half of the world population and provides 60-70 percent body calories. In world, paddy cultivation is done about 158.30 million hectare lands with production of 685.24 million tones and productivity of 43.28 quintal/hectare. In India paddy was cultivated about 39.47 million hectare land and produce 87. 10 miilion tones with productivity of 22.07 quintal/hectare. Ullar Pradesh paddy cultivation is done about 5.63 million hectare lands with production of 5.12 million tones with productivity 21.20 quintal/hectare. The present study was attempt on "Economic analysis of paddy production in Meerut district of Western Ullar Pradesh" with of following objectives (i) To know the socio economic profile of the sample household (ii) To work out the cost and returns of paddy production for different size group of farms. (iii) To examine the resource use efficiency in paddy production on different size group of farms.(iv)To study production and marketing constraints faced by the paddy growers From the purposely selected district and blocks on the basis of highest area under the crop. Four villages were selected randomly from the selected blocks, a complete list of farmers were prepared and then categorized into four catego1y i.e. marginal, small, medium and large on the basis of size of holding from the total paddy growers, /00 respondents were selected in probability proportion tom their population . for the collection of data, suitable statistical tools were employed to meet the objective. The major socio economic factor identified were family size monthly income, size of holding, education level, cropping pall ern and farm assets the condition of large farmer was better than to other categmy farmers because of more holding size, highly qualified, more assets and more number of income sources, than that of medium following by small and marginal. The cost of cultivation of paddy was amounted Rs. 69954 per hectare and contribution of cost A was 52.80 percent overall average yield and benefit-cost ratio was found to be 42.86 quintal/hectare and 1.15.The benefit-cost ratio was highest 1.17 for the large farmers and lowest 1.12 for the marginal. In paddy production marginal value productivity, acquisition costs and their different indicate that only machine labour was observed as optimum utilization where as others were sub optimally utilized in marginal category of respondents. In case of small category only manure and fertilizer was under optimum use and other were sub optimal use. Irrigation and manure & fertilizer were under optimum use and other resources were at sub optimal level in the medium categmy. In case of large categmy ·seed, human labour and plant protection were optimally utilized by the respondents and other were under sub optima/use. Among the various constraints respondents reported their problems and ranked as high value of inputs, pest and disease control and labour shortage were major constraints in paddy production.