3 research outputs found
A Study on Constraints Faced by Farmers in Adapting to Climate Change in Rainfed Agriculture
No full textAn Economic Analysis of the Cost Structure and Constraints of Maize Cultivation in Hyderabad-Karnataka Region
No full textMaize (Zea mays L.) is one of the most versatile emerging crops, with a wide range of adaptation under a multitude of agro-climatic conditions. It is primarily a kharif crop (the kharif cropping season is also called as fall harvest season and is from July to October during the south-west monsoon in Indian subcontinent), with 85 per cent of the area under cultivation during kharif season. After rice and wheat, maize is India's third most important cereal crop. The current study attempts to analyze the cost and return structure of the maize crop in Koppal district of Karnataka state, as well as the marketing costs incurred by 120 maize respondent farmers and the constraints coupled with maize production and marketing. The study concluded that large farmers have incurred higher costs in all the inputs such as seed, farm yard manure (henceforth FYM), fertilizer, plant protection chemicals (henceforth PPCs), human labour and machine labour. For cultural operations, both medium and large agriculture depends on machine labour rather than bullock power. Transportation and packing costs were higher in all farmer categories. The transportation cost varied according to the quantity of produce and the distance between the regulated market and the study area. The maize respondents said that erratic rainfall behaviour was a major production constraint (90.0%), whereas lack of news dissemination was a major marketing constraint, ranking first with 85 per cent
An Assessment of Structural Change in Sugarcane Cropping Pattern in Karnataka: Evidence from Markov Chain Analysis
No full textAims: The present study was undertaken in Kalaburagi with the overall objective of determining the structural change in sugarcane cropping pattern in Kalyana-Karnataka region.
Study Design: The study was conducted in Kalaburagi district of Karnataka state especially focused to Kalyan Karnataka region. The area of ten major crops of the Kalaburgi district were taken in to consideration such as Jawar, Wheat, Red gram, Chickpea (Gram), Groundnut, Sunflower, Banana, Onion and Others crops for study.
Material and Methods: The 20 year’s secondary data of sugarcane were collected from 2000-01 to 2021-22 to fulfill the objectives of the study. The required data were collected from different sources such as District Statistical Officer, DES, Bangalore, DAC, Indiastat.com, etc. The study used CAGR, CV, Markov chain analysis, Moving Average Methods and descriptive analysis to fulfil the objectives of the study.
Results: The results of the transition probability matrix (TPM) showed that sugarcane has retained 40 percent of its area over the study period and it has gained 38 percent of area from Jowar and 21 percent of area from Bengal gram in the Kalaburagi district. The study showed that the sugarcane productions were largely contributed from Afzalpur taluq in the Kalaburagi district followed by Jewargi and Aland during the period.
Conclusion: The study concluded that sugarcane crop has emerged as alternative crop in the irrigation belt of the Kalaburagi and it has high potentiality for improving socio-economic conditions of the farmers in the region
