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 |
In Haveri district of Karnataka, maize is preferred by the farmers. Hence, the impact of installation of maize extraction factory on maize growers economy has been studied using the randomly selected maize growers and primary data was collected from sample farmers by personal interview method with the help of pre-tested schedule. The data have been analyzed using partial budgeting technique and simple tabular analysis. The results revealed that there was a shift in the cropping pattern of the farmers that before the installation of the factory, the crops like cotton (24.63%), maize (22.07%), onion (5.98%) but after the installation of factory. The crops like maize (38.01%), cotton (16.27%), onion (2.11%) were observed. It shows the area under maize has been increased after the installation of factory. Selling of maize to the starch extraction factory was increases market cost of Rs. 365.44 (Rs. 16/Qtl.) and saved amount of Rs. 1603.37. The total income increased was Rs. 3613.29 by selling maize to the maize starch extraction factory. The factory received huge quantity of maize around 8 lakh Kg per day. Therefore, maize starch extraction factory is not under loss and also beneficial to maize growers of the study area.
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