Economics and efficiency in groundnut vis-à-vis cotton cultivation: A DEA approach
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ECONOMICS AND EFFICIENCY IN GROUNDNUT VIS-À-VIS COTTON CULTIVATION: A DEA APPROACH
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MURLIDHAR MEENA
ICAR- Directorate of Groundnut Research, Junagadh-362 001, Gujarat
Keywords:
Cotton, Data Envelopment Analysis, Groundnut, Gujarat, Technical efficiencyAbstract
A significant change in groundnut and cotton acreage was observed in India and Gujarat since introduction of Bt-cotton in the country since 2002-03. The cotton acreage expanded whereas groundnut area shrunken at national as well as state level in post Bt-cotton period. The major cause of such transformation was higher returns in cotton cultivation than groundnut. In present study higher net returns in cotton (` 41,852/ha) was recorded than groundnut (38,721 `/ha). The overall technical efficiency was found higher at groundnut fields (95%) than cotton fields (91%). The year of schooling of the farmers and family size were found to improve the technical efficiency significantly in both crops along with farm size of groundnut fields. The decreasing area under groundnut needs policy support to make its cultivation more remunerative which will be helpful in providing edible oil security and also to cater feed demand of cattle in the country.
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