C. Murthy

Costs and Returns in Commercial Broiler Rearing in Dharwad District

The Indian poultry industry has grown largely due to the initiative of private enterprises. Poultry farming in India is a culmination of many years of innovation. Poultry farming in India has been a huge success in the last decade. Statistics showed a 2 per cent increase per annum in the agricultural production during the last 30 years, while the growth in the poultry sector has been 12 per cent which gives an idea about how well this industry is doing. Per unit cost decreases with increase in the size of farms signifying the economies of scale. The problem of high wage rate was the major problem expressed by the farmer respondents. The losses due to disease occurrence was severe problem as the hatchery will be taking lot of precautions on the mortality of birds in recent years so this was the problem expressed at the last. Thus, in nutshell, the broiler farming is a profitable venture and has a bright future in the study area for improving economic status of the farming community.

Procurement management of input and factors influencing commercial broiler rearing in Dharwad district

Poultry farming in India has been a huge success in the last decade. Statistics showed a 2 per cent increase per annum in the agricultural production during the last 30 years, while the growth in the poultry sector has been 12 per cent which gives an idea about how well this industry is doing. The Indian poultry industry has grown largely due to the initiative of private enterprises. Poultry farming in India is a culmination of many years of innovation. Moreover, today the industry as a whole, with its enabling of low cost model with increased productivity. The procurement cost increases as the net income also increases. There are a total of 15 factors relating to production, marketing, socio-economic characters, contracting terms which were considered and subjected to principal component analysis. In this principal component analysis, six dimensions were extracted and considered for interpretation.

Growth in area, production and productivity of coconut in Karnataka

The growth in area, production and productivity of coconut in Karnataka and its districts was estimated using compounded annual growth rate analysis. The necessary secondary data was collected for a period of fifteen years from 2000-2001 to 2014- 15. Growth rates in area, production and productivity of coconut in Karnataka state were positive and significant at 1 per cent. With respect to the districts of Karnataka, Tumkur, Hassan, Chitradurga and Chikamagalur were the major coconut growing areas. There was found to be a significantly positive growth in ten districts and significantly negative growth rate in six districts at 1 and 5 per cent levels of significance. With respect to production, Tumkur, Hassan, Chitradurga and Mandya were the districts with the highest production. The growth rates in productivity were significantly positive in twenty two districts and significantly negative in two districts at 1 and 5 per cent levels of significance. Chikkaballapura had the highest growth rate in production within a period of eight years, which was significant at 5 per cent. Bangalore rural had the highest negative growth rate which was significant at 1 per cent. The declining trend in coconut area in Mandya should also be addressed. The productivity of coconut was highest in districts of Yadgiri, Ramnagara, Chikkaballapura followed by others. The growth rates in productivity were positive and highly significantly in twenty nine districts and non-significantly negative in only one district viz., Yadgiri. Overall, the coconut scenario in Karnataka has been improving, particularly after 2007, as a result of drastic increase in productivity 2007 onwards which may be attributed to the bumper production in 2006 and NHM initiatives in the subsequent years.

Comparison of minimum support price scheme for maize and paddy in north Karnataka

MSP is a form of market intervention by the Government of India to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices to protect the producer- farmers- against excessive fall in price during bumper production years. The study was conducted during the year 2015-16 using the secondary data pertaining to the MSP for different crops and open market prices for paddy and maize in selected markets of Uttara Kannada and Belagavi districts. Compound growth rate were computed to comprehend the annual growth in MSP of agricultural commodities for the period from 2000-01 to 2015-16. It is revealed that the annual growth rate for MSP for all commodities were found to be positive.The growth rate of MSP for paddy and maize were 8.26 per cent and 8.62 per cent, respectively.The increase in MSP was not equitable to all the crops. Both open market prices and MSP had shown increasing trend but most of the years, open market prices for paddy and maize both were higher than the MSP in all the selected markets of UttaraKannada and Belagavi districtsand the percentage differences were not high. The influence of MSP on market price was not significant in paddy and maize. Hence, there is need to bring some improvement in the price policy to different crops for ensuring highest returns to the farmers to continue their production with the increase in cost of inputs especially the crops like paddy and maize.

Impact of minimum support price scheme for groundnut on farm incomes in North Karnataka

MSP is a form of market intervention by the Government of India to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices to protect the producer- farmers- against excessive fall in price during bumper production years. The effectiveness of price policy at the state level involves the availability of market infrastructure at the state level and the initiative taken by the State Governments to create an institutional structure for monitoring agricultural prices. The study was conducted during the year 2015-16 using the secondary data pertaining to the MSP for different crops and open market prices for groundnut in selected market of Gadag district. Compound growth rate were computed to comprehend the annual growth in MSP of agricultural commodities for the period from 2000-01 to 2015-16. It is revealed that the annual growth rate for MSP for all commodities was found to be positive. The growth rate of MSP for groundnut was 9.26 per cent. The increase in MSP was not equitable to all the crops. Both open market prices and MSP shown increasing trend but most of the years, open market prices for groundnut were higher than the MSP in all the selected market of Gadag and the percentage differences were not high. The influence of MSP on market price was not significant in groundnut. Hence, there is need to bring some improvement in the price policy to different crops in ensuring highest returns to the farmers to continue their production with the increase in cost of inputs especially the crop groundnut.