S. E. H. Rizvi

Diagnostic Study of Farmers in Context of Cost and Return Analysis, Price Spread Analysis and Marketing Pattern in Mantalai Village of Udhampur District

The study on Diagnostic Study of Farmers in context of cost and return analysis, the price spread analysis and marketing pattern in Mantalai village of Udhampur district is conducted during the year 2015. Cereal crops do not provide much return to the farmers of the area. Moreover, vegetables are most profitable crops in the area and farmers are getting better returns from these. Farmers of the area are also trying to get returns from the growing of fruit crops. The climate of the area is also suitable for growing walnut, bei, apricot, plum, apple etc. It is the cumbersome and little bit difficult for them to market the produce to Jammu. Farmers are facing a specific problem that is road connectivity from their fields to the roadside. The fields are not well connected to the road and the link is in dilapidated conditions which force them to transport the produce through human labor which in turn increases their marketing cost resulting in a decline in their profit. They are demanding proper road connectivity from their fields to the road.

A New Approach of Ratio Estimation in Sample Surveys

This article deals with the estimation of population mean under simple random sampling using a new form of ratio estimator. The expression for mean square error and bias has been obtained. An efficiency comparison is considered for proposed estimator with the classical ratio, product and exponential ratio estimator. Finally an empirical study is also carried out to judge the performance of proposed estimator.

Resource use efficiency of lemon cultivation in Jammu region of J&K state

The present study made an indepth analysis of lemon being an important citrus crop by studying its resource use efficiency. The analysis of data on lemon indicated the overall values of regression coefficients as 0.451, 1.257, -0.011, -0.002 and -0.023 for human labour, manures + fertilizers, irrigation, plant protection and training/ pruning, respectively, out of which human labour and manures + fertilizers were statistically significant, indicating that one per cent increase of expenditures on these two inputs could increase the returns to the extent of 0.45 per cent and 1.26 per cent, respectively, while as in case of irrigation, plant protection and training/ pruning one per cent additional investment could decrease the production by 0.011 per cent, 0.002 per cent and 0.023 per cent, respectively. The marginal value productivi- ties of human labour and manures + fertilizers were positive with their values at 0.111 and 0.882, respectively whereas that of irrigation (-0.020), plant protection (-59.710) and training/ pruning (-0.039) were negative thereby indicating that with an additional one rupee spent on these inputs could reduce the total returns and hence should be checked.