2024, Vol. 9, Special Issue 3
Resource use efficiency of bitter gourd cultivation under drip v/s conventional irrigation method in Central India
Author(s): PK Patidar and YK Singh
Abstract: Vegetable is the important source of human nutrition and characterize a dynamic segment of Indian’s agriculture. Demand for vegetables is cumulative in national and international market. Despite high revenues, non-availability of irrigation water is hindering the expansion of area under vegetables. Commercial production of vegetable is not possible without adequate water availability throughout the growing season. Vegetable cultivation through drip method, as an efficient water-saving technology, has been widely used in crop, but its effects on crop production, irrigation water productivity (IWP) and water productivity (WP) vary with field managements, climatic conditions and soil properties. A multi-stage stratified random sampling method was apply for selection of districts, blocks, villages and respondents. A Dhar district was selected based on greater irrigated area under drip irrigation, among all districts of Malwa Plateau Agro-Climatic Region. 180 adopters (who adopted drip method of irrigation) and 60 non-adopters (who adopted conventional irrigation method) vegetable grower, constituting sample size of total 240 vegetable growers were selected from the area under study.
Cobb-Douglas production function was apply to estimate the resource use efficiency. Seed gave positive and highly significant response over yield of bitter gourd, while plant protection chemical, irrigation and human labour show moderate significant response over the yield of bitter gourd in cultivated at non-adopter farm. Reveals that if all things remain constant and in the current level of technology adoption increase of ₹1.00 of investment on seed, plant protection chemical, irrigation and human labour will be able to increase 0.259, 0.131, 0.109 and 0.406 quintal yield of bitter gourd, respectively at non-adopter farm in the study area. The elasticity of production (Σbi) indicates that constant return to scale in cultivation of bitter gourd at non-adopter farm. Chemical fertilizers, FYM/organic manures, plant protection chemical, machine power, human labour gave positive and highly significant response over yield of bitter gourd, while irrigation show moderate significant response over the yield of bitter gourd cultivated at adopter farm. Reveals that if all thing remain constant and in the current level of technology adoption increase of ₹ 1.00 of investment on chemical fertilizer, FYM/organic manure, plant protection chemical, irrigation, machine power and human labour will able to increase 0.147, 0.047, 0.129, 0.062, 0.144 and 0.382 quintal yield of bitter gourd, respectively at adopter farm in the study area. The summation of regression (Σbi) indicates that constant return to scale in cultivation of bitter gourd at adopter farm.
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PK Patidar, YK Singh. Resource use efficiency of bitter gourd cultivation under drip v/s conventional irrigation method in Central India. Int J Stat Appl Math 2024;9(3S):50-53.
