scholarly journals Production oriented survey (POS) on different aspects of rice cultivation and farmers practices under red and lateritic zone of West Bengal, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-381
Author(s):  
R. Mandal ◽  
K. Jana ◽  
S. Ghosh ◽  
A. Biswas ◽  
K.K. Bhadra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Rice Cultivation

scholarly journals An Assessment of Share Cropping in Paddy Cultivation- An Empirical analysis in Burdwan District of West Bengal

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-394
Author(s):  
Arnab Roy ◽  
Rohit G.V
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Rice Cultivation ◽  
Rice Crop ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Paddy Cultivation ◽  
Improved Methods ◽  
A Share

Sharecropping is a practice of crop growing where a landlordagrees a tenant to use the land-dwelling in return for a share of the crops produced on that land area.Share cropping is asignificant age old agricultural practise in West Bengal. A massive scope is there to enhance production of paddy in the study area through aggregate the productivity of the crop with the adoption of developedvarieties and improved methods of rice cultivation in owed time and space on a sustainable foundation. Results from the study showed that 26.49 per cent of the total operational holding area was put under share cropping cultivation in rice cultivation, which varied from 19.65 per cent in marginalfarmsto26.86percentinlargefarms. Thus, Share cropping in West Bengal found to be acomplementaryand supplementary source of farm revenue.There seems to be still abundant scope in the study area, to make share cropping more cost-effective as the productivity of rice crop is 2898 kg/ha quite smaller than the Punjab’s productivity (3828 kg/ha) and also smaller than Egypt which has largest productivity in the world.

Profitability in rice cultivation across Indian States

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (Special) ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
Parshuram Samal ◽  
Biswajit Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Rice Cultivation ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Total Cost

The paper discusses the profitability in rice farming using secondary data for the period 1980-81 to 2014-15. The average costs and profits were computed and it was found that cost of cultivation has increased over years, but profit has not increased commensurately. The irrigated states like Punjab, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh have maintained or increased profits over years, but not the rainfed states. There were losses in rice farming in rainfed states like Assam, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and Maharashtra, when total cost of cultivation was considered. Promotional measures and investment by state and central governments are needed to make rice production profitable.

Profitability in rice cultivation across Indian States

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
Parshuram Samal ◽  
Biswajit Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Rice Cultivation ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Total Cost

The paper discusses the profitability in rice farming using secondary data for the period 1980-81 to 2014-15. The average costs and profits were computed and it was found that cost of cultivation has increased over years, but profit has not increased commensurately. The irrigated states like Punjab, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh have maintained or increased profits over years, but not the rainfed states. There were losses in rice farming in rainfed states like Assam, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and Maharashtra, when total cost of cultivation was considered. Promotional measures and investment by state and central governments are needed to make rice production profitable.

scholarly journals Extent of technological change in rice cultivation over four decades in West Bengal, India

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 281-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chatterjee ◽  
S. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
The State ◽  
Rice Cultivation ◽  
Good Effect ◽  
Theil Index ◽  
Productivity Change ◽  
Tfp Growth ◽  
Fertility Status

Rice is a principal food crop which occupies nearly a one-fourth of the gross irrigated area in India. However, the present study attempts to judge the essence of the Green Revolution in rice cultivation and its actual reflection regarding the factor contribution over four decades in West Bengal, India. The study measures the extent of technological change in rice cultivation using the Divisia-Tornqvist Theil index model for computing the total factor productivity (TFP) of rice for the state of West Bengal. Subsequently, the spatial change in the TFP as well as a comparative study on productivity, input use, break-up of cost components and economic return in the paddy cultivation over different size classes across all agro-climatic zones of West Bengal has been made in order to identify the most promising zone regarding technological advancement in rice cultivation. The study reveals that technological change in rice cultivation has occurred in the state of West Bengal for the entire four decades while its extent has not been equally disseminated in decades. The effect of the productivity change was robust in the 2<sup>nd</sup> decade (1981&ndash;1982 to 1991&ndash;1992) with a 4.19% TFP growth rate indicating that the good effect of the Green Revolution has began to start regarding the technological change in rice cultivation over West Bengal. On the other hand, the TFP<sub>rice</sub> results in the state have given a dismal picture in the later phases under study where it starts declining with the change of time. At the end decade (2001&ndash;2002 to 2009&ndash;2010), the TFP growth has been found to be negative (&ndash;0.69) reflecting ill effects of a higher use of inorganic fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides to corrupt the soil fertility status of the state. It is the quality HYV seed that dominates among all factor contributors for the overall TFP<sub>rice</sub> change along with the human labour use. Farm mechanization enters after the 90s indicating a major reform in the context of the technology adoption by the rice growers in the state. The region-wise scenario of rice cultivation in the state has proved that the Gangetic Alluvial tract has been the better technology adopter with higher TFP indices as compared to the problematic regions like the Red Lateratic zone and the Coastal Saline belt, the reason of which might be the improved fertility status of soil with a large number of progressive paddy growers operating in terms of a better knowledge gaining, a better education and extension. &nbsp; &nbsp;

scholarly journals Self-Sufficiency of Rice Consumption and Farm Entrepreneurship of Operating Farmers in Rural Areas of West Bengal, India: An Empirical Interpretation from Socio-Personal, Agro-Economic, Socio-Psychological and Communicative Variables

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Debraj Roy ◽  
Swagata Ghoshal ◽  
S. K. Acharya ◽  
Arindam Ghosh ◽  
Debashis Mazumder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Rice Cultivation ◽  
Self Sufficiency

Aims: The major objectives of the study are to elucidate the distributive characters of operating farms in the selected locale of the study, to delineate a micro level policy so that the constraints of the operating farms can be analyzed and intervention programmes can be operationally described, to estimate and analyze the nature and direction of interaction among the independent and dependent variables. Study Design: The locale was selected by purposive as well as simple random sampling techniques and the respondents following rice cultivation had been interacted and were selected by the simple random sampling method. Place of Study: Village Rasulpur of Memari-1 block of Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal was purposively selected for the study. Methodology: In this study 50 respondents following rice cultivation have been interacted and are selected by the simple random sampling method. A preliminary interview schedule has been administered to understand the knowledge, perception and attitude of the people towards climate changes concept, communication and extension system, farm enterprises, challenges faced during rice production. The collected data had been put into multivariate analysis. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences V20.0 (SPSS) of IBM was used for correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, step-down regression analysis, path analysis and factor analysis. Results: Independent variables economic land (x7), group interaction (x11), innovation proneness (x13) and market orientation (x14) have been found to exert strong and determining contribution to estimate dependent variable self-consumption of rice production (y) and the set of economic and ecological variables as selected for the study. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the dynamics of self-sufficiency of food grains and entrepreneurship, here in case of rice enterprises, are dominantly relying on the entrepreneurs’ behavioural characters, the group interaction they are experiencing, the economic land they are possessing, the electricity consumption level, and the fuel use efficiency, innovation proneness and market interaction.

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