National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Brinjal, being an important vegetable crop, is grown extensively throughout the country including the state of West Bengal. Study on costs and returns structure reveals that the sample farmers have made an investment of Rs. 164365.65/, Rs. 276502.12/ and Rs. 347758.45/ ha in terms of Cost A1, Cost B and Cost C on an average respectively considering farmers of all size groups to realise a gross return of Rs. 382866.62/ha. The net returns are estimated to be Rs. 218500.97, Rs. 106364.50 and Rs. 35108.17/ha over Cost A1, Cost B and Cost C with the return - cost ratios of 2.33,1.38 and1.10 respectively. Although, farmers belonging to the farm size class of 0.5 to 1.0 ha have spent maximum total cost of Rs. 353342.68/ha to get the maximum net return of Rs. 44120.59/ha with return-cost ratio of 1.12, but no definite relationship between farm size and net returns can be established from the study. Brinjal cultivation is not only economically profitable, but also highly labour intensive requiring 688 man-days during the complete production process which provides ample scope for employment of rural people.
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