scholarly journals Resource Use Efficiency in Part-time Food Crop Production: The Stochastic Frontier Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MY Amodu ◽  
JO Owolabi ◽  
SS Adeola
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Food Crop ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Approach ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Food Crop Production

scholarly journals Productivity and profitability of maize-pumpkin mix cropping in Chitwan, Nepal

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiva Chandra Dhakal ◽  
Punya Prasad Regmi ◽  
Resham Bahadur Thapa ◽  
Shrawan Kumar Sah ◽  
Dilli Bahadur Khatri-Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Allocative Efficiency ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Cost Ratio ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Benefit Cost Ratio ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Benefit Cost ◽  
Positive Effect

The study was conducted to determine the productivity, profitability and resource use efficiency of maize-pumpkin mix crop production in Chitwan. The study used 53 maize-pumpkin mix crop adopting farmers from among 300 farmers adopting different pollinator friendly practices. Descriptive and statistical tools including Cobb-Douglas production function were used to analyze data, collected from structured interview schedule. The benefit cost ratio (1.58) indicates that maize-pumpkin mix cropping was profitable with productivity of 2.83 ton per ha on maize main product equivalent basis. The magnitude of regression coefficients of maize-pumpkin mix cropping implied that expenditure on seed and fertilizer and irrigation had significant positive effect on gross return with estimated decreasing return to scale (0.85). According to estimated allocative efficiency indices, it is suggested to increase expenditure on seed and fertilizer cum irrigation by about 90% and 55% respectively. Extension of modern technologies with adjustment on resource use is to be encouraged for increase in productivity and profitability of maize-pumpkin mix crop production which indirectly promotes and ensure forage for pollinatorsJournal of Maize Research and Development (2015) 1(1):112-122DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.34290

scholarly journals ​Conservation Agriculture (CA)-Based Tillage Practices in Maize for Enhancing Crop Yield, Resource use Efficiency and Soil Health: A Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niraj Biswakarma ◽  
Bishesh Rai ◽  
Somanath Nayak ◽  
Radheshyam .
Keyword(s):  
Crop Yield ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Conservation Agriculture ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Tillage Practices ◽  
Use Efficiency

The triple challenge of acute water crisis, stagnant crop yield and soil health deterioration in NW Indo Gangetic Plains (IGP) ramble a search for potential alternative crop establishment technique (CET). Hence, maize-based crop rotations under best-bet conservation agriculture (CA) practices can plays a critical role in sustainable crop production. The CA-based tillage and CET viz. zero tillage (ZT) and permanent raised beds (PB) hold potential to intensify crop yield per hectare, improving resource use efficiency besides bringing desirable changes in soil physico-chemical and biological properties. Therefore, it needs to be popularized in larger scale chiefly under maize-based rotation to makes farming more attractive, profitable and sustainable.

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