Costs and income analysis of gram pulse crop cultivation in Azamgarh District of eastern Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Pulses are important with the view of their food and nutritional security and also income and employment generation ability possibility to raise the cropping intensity due to its nature of best fit with food grain production system. Study was conducted in Thekma block of Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. A sample of 100 respondents were chosen through purposive cum proportionate random sampling and were categories as marginal, small and medium size group of farms. A survey was conducted by personal interview method with use of pre-structured schedule. Simple tabular analysis was done to find out the result. It was found that Gram cultivation was profitable at all categories of farm. The total costs of cultivation and gross income per hectare were positively related with size of farms, where as negative trend of net income with farm size should that resources are not efficiently used in Gram cultivation at larger size group of farm.