Year: 2016 | Month: March | Volume 61 | Issue 1
Income and employment generation under existing farming systems in tribal dominated Banswara district of Southern Rajasthan
DOI:10.5958/0976-4666.2016.00016.4
Abstract:
Rajasthan is the largest state of India constituting 10.4 per cent of total geographical area and 5.67 per cent of total population of India. The present investigation was under taken to work out the income and employment under existing farming systems in tribal dominant Banswara district of Southern Rajasthan during 2012-13. A sample of 60 households consisting of 30 each under rainfed and irrigated situation was selected for the study. Four farming systems were existed in both the rainfed and irrigated situations of Banswara district viz. FS-I: Crop+ Vegetables (C+V), FS-II: Crop + Dairy (C+D), FS-III: Crop + Dairy +Goat (C+D+G) and FS-IV: Crop + Goat +Poultry +Orchard (C+G +Po+O). The total cost in rainfed farming system was the lowest in FS-I (` 59707.15) and the highest in FS-III (` 166716.75). The total costs in irrigated farming system were the lowest in FS-I (` 232289.97) and highest in FS-III (` 292409.27). On the basis of net return per household, the most profitable farming system adopted under the rainfed situation was FS-III (Crop+Goat+Dairy) with ` 57600.95 per farm while on the basis of returns per rupee investment; it was FS-IV (Crop+Goat+Poultry) i.e. ` 1.57. While under irrigated situation, FS-I (Crop+Vegetable) was the most profitable farming system on net return basis (` 147287) and returns per rupee investment i.e. ` 1.63. On per farm basis employment generated in rainfed and irrigated conditions were found maximum in FS-II (197.76 man days) and FS-IV (626.60 man days) in the district, respectively. In irrigated condition the employment generation was more in the district as crop,poultry and orchard activities were included in FS-IV which utilized more of family labour resulted to maximum employment.
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