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 |
Rice (Oryza sativa) is the staple food for more than half of the world’s population and plays a pivotal role in food security of many countries. More than 90 per cent of the global production and consumption of rice in Asia. Multistage sampling design was adopted in selection of district, tehsil and villages. On the basis of area under both the methods of paddy cultivation, Dharmapuri and Sarangapur tehsils of Karimnagar district were selected for the present study. From each tehsil, five villages were selected on the basis of traditional and SRI methods of paddy cultivation. From each village, 10 farmers were selected randomly comprising 5 farmers for traditional and 5 farmers for SRI methods of paddy cultivation. Thus, from 10 villages, 100 paddy growers were selected with the equal distribution of 50 for traditional and 50 farmers for SRI methods of paddy cultivation.The economics of traditional paddy and SRI method paddy found that the per hectare cost of cultivation (Rs. 48945.9) for SRI paddy was more when compared to that (Rs. 47341.61) of traditional paddy. Total cost of cultivation was more by about Rs.1604.29 for SRI when compared to that in traditional method. The per hectare gross returns realized for traditional paddy farmers and SRI paddy farmers, respectively were Rs. 86860 and Rs. 112420. The net returns were Rs. 39518.39 for traditional method and Rs. 63474.1 for SRI method. The net returns over Cost A, Cost B and Cost C were also higher in SRI method when compared to those in traditional method. The return per rupee spent was around Rs. 1.83 in traditional method and it was 2.29 in SRI method. The major attributing factor for the high operational cost in SRI method of rice was human labour. The study revealed that the higher total operational costs were compensating the yield advantage of SRI method of rice. The Major reasons for practicing SRI method by sample farmers were less water requirement and higher yield levels.
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