Year: 2022 | Month: February | Volume 67 | Issue 1s
Resource Use Efficiency in Apple Production at Himachal Pradesh: A Comparative Study of Different Farm Size
Sikander Kumar
Vishal Chauhan
DOI:10.46852/0424-2513.1.2022.14
Abstract:
The act of production involves the transformation of inputs into outputs. The relation between inputs and output has been called the production function. As factor inputs are costly and scarce, and the extent of their use on farms has a direct bearing on crop production the case for their efficient use is self-evident. Therefore, it is necessary to study the extent and magnitude of various farm endowments prevailing on farms in different size classes in the study area. The field survey was conducted on 200 farming households of different farm sizes and Apple output and inputs data had been collected from the respondents with the help of Questioner. The Cobb-Douglas production function has been used to Analyze the input-output relation which explains the resource use efficiency of different farm sizes. The study reveals that the land-use efficiency is significant on marginal farms however in human labour it is higher on small farms. The manures and fertilizers results reveal that it is highest and significant on marginal farms however in seeds it turned out to be non-significant in all farm categories. As far as the others are concern it is significant on medium farms at a 1.00 percent significant level.
Highlights
- Production Elasticity of land is high on marginal farms in the Apple Production
- Marginal productivity of labour for Small farms is high in the Apple production.
- Manures and fertilizers is playing significant role in the Apple Production on the Marginal farms.
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