Cost, return and profitability in brinjal in Ratnagiri district

Abstract

The brinjal or eggplant (solanum melongena) is one of the most popular and principal vegetable crop grown in India and other part of world. In recent year in Konkan region area under brinjal cultivation is increasing. However, information regarding cost, returns and profitability of brinjal is scanty. So efforts are made in this paper to study cost, returns and profitability of brinjal. The total cost of cultivation (cost ‘C’) of brinjal was worked out to be ₹ 181039. Out of the total cost the share of human labour was maximum (40.68%) which was followed by rental value of land (39.19%). At the overall level out of total cost (cost C) the input cost comprises 31.80 per cent, cost ‘A’ was 35.26 per cent and cost ‘B’ was 77.29 per cent. It is found that brinjal cultivation is profitable at all levels cost in all the groups. The net return at Cost-C were ₹ 213467, ₹ 230746 and ₹ 290671 in case of small, medium and large group respectively, while it was ₹ 244961 at overall level. The benefit cost ratio on small, medium, large size farm and at overall level was estimated to 2.30, 2.32, 2.42 and 2.35 respectively.