Agriculture Update

B. L. Asiwal ¹, L. R. Balai ², J. Akhter ², R. C. Asiwal ³

Affiliations
1 Bhartiya Krishi Vigyan Kendra (S.K.N.A.U.), Fatehpur, Sikar (Rajasthan), IN
2 Bhartiya Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Fatehpur, Sikar (Rajasthan), IN
3 Department of Agriculture Economics, Sri Karan Narendra College of Agriculture, Jobner (Rajasthan), IN

Abstract

The KVKs play an important role in transferring new agricultural technologies and enhancing the productivity of crops through trainings and FLDs. Keeping in view all beneficiaries of moong bean demonstrations (96) from 18 adopted villages of KVK were selected purposively. To compare the production and profitability, the yield data of FLDs and control plots were collected from each farmers and averaged out in each year at all locations during study 2010-2013. Maximum average demonstration yield 11.83 q ha^-1 was recorded in Kharif 2011 while minimum yield 6.02 q ha^-1 was recorded in Kharif 2013. It clearly shows that maximum 39.69 per cent yield increased over control plot during the Kharif season 2010, it was followed by 24.26, 19.36 and 21.86 per cent in each study year. Similarly, after conducting the FLDs and trainings by KVK in adopted villages the change in extent of adoption of new technological interventions were increased upto 29.16 per cent in case of HYVs, 29.13 per cent balance dose of NPK, 21.87 per cent in seed treatment, 20.83 per cent use zinc sulphate, and 18.75 per cent increases were in proper seed rate and use of insecticides. During studies years the net profit from demonstrations were found higher than control plot, it was maximum i.e., Rs. 35350/- in which Rs. 6400/- per hectare was more as compared to control plot i.e., Rs. 28950/- in year 2012. Maximum extention gap (2.58) recorded in Kharif 2010 which was later on decreased upto 2.31, 1.52 and 1.08 in all, respectively years. It shows positive role of KVK in performance of FLDs moongbean with improvement in socio-economic status of the farmers.

Keywords

KVK, Moong Bean, HYVs, FLDs, Productivity, Profitability.

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R. C. Asiwal ¹, R. C. Sharma ¹, Basant Kumar Sharma ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, S.K.N. College of Agriculture, Jobner (Rajasthan), IN

Abstract

The present study investigates the functioning of Agricultural labour market in Jaipur district of Rajasthan. The Chomu tehsil was purposively selected for study. A cluster of three villages namely, Jaitpura, Kanpura and Khushalpura was randomly selected from the selected tehsil. From above selected villages, a sample of sixty respondents was selected at random with the help of probability proportion. Primary data were collected from the selected agricultural labour households by personally interviewing the results of study revealed that more than 80 per cent of the households reported either borrowing or leasing in land from their employers in all selected villages. Further, labour-credit interlocking was much more pronounced as compared to labour-land interlocking. The number of days worked on lower wages per annum varied from as high as 81.00 in Khushalpura to 61.00 in Jaitpura. The implicit rate of interest varied between as high as 36.00 per cent in Khushalpura and 24.00 per cent in Jaitpura. The incidence of hereditary debt was reported only in one sample villages, which was Rs. 12500 in Khushalpura. The incidence of labour land interlocking was very low; it varied from 14 per cent to around 18 per cent sample households involved in such interlocking. The low incidence of labour land interlocking was primarily due to the fact that most of the agricultural labour households did not have the supporting inputs, like bullocks and other farm implements which are essentially required in farming.

Keywords

Interlocking, Probability, Household, Incidence, Implicit, Explicit, Functioning.

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