Jain, Rajni and Chauhan, Sonia and Srivastava, Satish K and Kingsley, I T and Raju, S S and Singh, Jaspal and Kaur, Amrit Pal (2016) Farm level technical efficiency for pulse production in India. Economic Affairs, 61 (3). pp. 539-547.
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Abstract
Pulses are complementary to cereals both in production as well as in consumption. During the production process, pulses help in improving sustainability by (i) fixing the atmospheric nitrogen into the soil (ii) consuming less water and (iii) controlling diseases and pests. On consumption front, pulses reduce malnutrition and improve human health being a rich and most viable source of protein for vegetarians and poor people. Realizing the importance of pulses, the government of India announces various schemes and programs from time to time to promote the cultivation of pulses in the country. However, pulse production in India has not achieved the targeted level. The paper analyses the production trend of pulses over the last decade and identifies the gap between the targets and achievements. Plot level data from cost of cultivation scheme across major pulses growing states has been used to estimate technical efficiencies of the pulses using data envelopment analysis. The paper also highlights the yield gap of the pulses across major pulse growing states and suggests suitable measures for improving farm level profitability and sustainability by increasing technical efficiency. The study postulated the hypothesis that technical efficiency of the pulses is low and the yield potential of the pulses are not fully harnessed. The results revealed that increase of technical efficiency by 1% will reduce the yield gap by 9 kg per ha and increase total pulse production of the country by 225 thousand tons.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Pulses, technical efficiency, data envelopment analysis, cost of cultivation |
| Subjects: | Socio Economics and Extension |
| Divisions: | CMFRI-Visakhapatnam |
| Depositing User: | Arun Surendran |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2019 10:42 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2019 10:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/13845 |
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