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 |
Vegetable cultivation plays an important role in the agricultural economy of India. Small and marginal farmers of India grow vegetable for generating income and increasing nutrient in the diet of people. But limited research was done on profitability and resource use efficiency of bottle gourd which are the crucial vegetable crops grown by farmers in Meerut. On the basis of primary data to know resource use efficiency of bottle gourd cultivation. The purposive sampling was used to select districts and villages on the basis of highest area under these crops random sampling technique was used to select the 100 farmers and categorized under marginal small and medium farmers. Study concluded coefficient of multiple determinations (R2) human labour, seed, manure and fertilizers and irrigation together contributed 88.2450, 83.4458 and 85.4872, per cent, that efficient use of resources. human labour and plant protection were statistically significant at 1 per cent level of significance Returns to scale on marginal, small and medium farms were analysed and found to be less than unity. Marginal value productivity in case of human labour on all three categories was found more than unity.
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