Agro-Economist

The economics of oat (cv. JHO -822) fodder production under improved package of practices was made over the farmers fields and analysed for the period Rabi 2010–11 in Muzaffarnagar, U.P. The technical knowhow was provided by the institute in growing the higher yield of oat fodder. For oat (JHO 822), the average total cost was found as 28201.4 per hectare. The average total working capital is found as 19385.3 per hectare. The total variable cost is found as 19966.9. The total fixed cost is found as 5670.76 per hectare. The share of variable cost in total cost is 70.80 percent. Thus the highest expenditure in percentage term is incurred on labour followed by manures and fertilizers and seed cost and draft power. The total expenses have increased by 13.6% in growing of oat (JHO-822) fodder crop with improved practices against the existing oat varieties. There is higher use of machine and labour mandays as the crop has given two cuttings in most of the fields. The green fodder yield was 18.68% higher and the cost of fodder produced reduced by 4.36 percent.