Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

D. P. Apte , G. R. Mulla

Abstract

IN recent years in the areas where irrigated crops depend upon wells for heavy irrigation a tendency to replace the bullock drawn water lifts by water pumps operated on oil engines or electric power is witnessed. It is proposed to study in the present paper comparative costs of lifting water from wells by different technique. For this purpose data collected during the case studies of banana plantations in a village in Jalgaon District of Maharashtra State are used.

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D. P. Apte

Abstract

Farm Budgeting and the use of Linear Programming techniques in the formulation of farm and are plans is assuming increasing importance in agriculture in more advanced countries like the U.S.A. and U.K. These methods help die farmers to consider alternative use of available resources on enterprise combinations and to determine the changes needed in the choice and combination of enterprises and in the organization and use of farm resources.

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