Ganga Devi1*, Riddhi Sakhiya, Mohit Kumar and Alpa Karmur
Department of Agricultural Economics, B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110, Gujarat, India
Email: gangasaran1982@gmail.com
Received-03.11.2023, Revised-16.11.2023, Accepted-28.11.2023
Abstract: The present study was undertaken with a view to study socio-economic profile, natural farming practices, cost and return and resource use efficiency of CBNF adopter farmers in middle Gujarat. The study covered 3 districts and total 60 CBNF adopters and 60 non-CBNF farmers from Ahmedabad, Kheda and Vadodara districts. To study the production, cost and return from farmers (both categories of farmers practicing cow based natural farming and conventional farming) of rice, required primary data was collected from the farmers in the agricultural year 2019-20 of rabi and kharif season. The results revealed that the per hectare average yield of rice of CBNF farms was less (40.88 quintal) as compared to non-CBNF farms (55.83 quintal) and average gross return per hectare earned by CBNF farmers was about ` 94089 and by non-CBNF farmers it was ` 108790 per hectare. The study also explained per hectare cost of cultivation was less in CBNF as compared to non-CBNF. Resource use efficiency highlighted that in CBNF system, MVP-MFC ratio was found more than one for all variables i.e., human labour (1.98), seed (11.50), jeevamritha (9.59), manure (16.20), irrigation (16.20) and bio-pesticide (169.52) which indicated under- utilization of these inputs which clearly indicated that there might be substantial scope for increasing the production of rice, whereas, in non-CBNF system, the result of MVP-MFC ratio indicated that there was a substantial scope for increasing the production of rice through judicious use of critical inputs particularly seed, fertilizer, manure, irrigation and pesticides as they was still under-utilized.
Keywords: Jeevamritha, CBNF, Resource use efficiency, Rice
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