An emerging scenario of higher employment and income potential of horticultural crops in central region of Uttar Pradesh.
Anil Kumar, Sachan B. S.
Author Affiliation: Seed and Farms Division and Department of Agricultural Eco. and Statics, C.S. Azad University of Agri. & Tech., Kanpur, India.
Trends in Biosciences 4 : 106-108
Abstract : The study has been conducted in central region of Uttar Pradesh. The study primarily based on the maximum area under the selected crops such as mango and field crops, vegetables and flowers. Higher Labour employment of over 310 man-days for jasmine over crossandra was mainly responsible for the relatively increased yield of around 2.5 to 3.5 tones. Among the fruit crops papaya needed higher employment of human labour of 725 man-days compared to other fruit crops not only due to higher yield of 124 tones but also due to continues harvest of fruit throughout the year. 21 may be noted that the expenses incurred on banana were the highest, being Rs. 64742 per hectare followed by jasmine with Rs. 54272 and papaya with Rs. 52146 respectively. The benefit cost ratio was the highest at 2.36 for papaya due to higher yields and returns fruit crops revealed higher benefit cost ratios followed by vegetable and flower crops and lastly field crops. Next to fruit crops, brinjal had higher benefit cost ratio of 2.11 followed by Bhindi with 1.03 and tomato 1.01 among the two flower crops. Jasmine showed a higher benefit cost ratio of 1.07 than crossandra 0.96. the benefit cost ratio were the lowest for field crops and highest being 0.36 groundnut. Lower yields and higher production costs due to intensive and continues cultivation were mainly responsible for lower benefit cost ratios. The study has also revealed that theories a need for introduction of comprehensive cost of cultivation studies for the horticultural crops so that a rational horticultural price policy could be implemented m central region of Uttar Pradesh.