1Research Scholar, Department of WANA, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email id: malikmushtaq10@gmail.com
2Research Scholar, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Email id: ratheriq@gmail.com
The paper examined the determinants of Apple Production (AP) in Jammu and Kashmir like Gross Domestic Product Per Capita (GDPc), Labour effort (Le), Fertilizer utilization (Fu), Climatic Conditions (CC) and Capital induction (CI). Broadly the Apple production depends on Labour effort used and the Capital induction (ie use of fertilizers pesticides, fungicides etc). Capital induction itself depends on GDPc. Thus Apple Production is a function of Labour effort and Capital induction keeping GDPc and Climatic conditions and technology constant. Using a Cobb Douglas type production function we have,
AP = ZLeaCIb
Where,
AP = Apple Production
Z = Constant (technology, Climatic conditions etc.)
Le = Labour effort used
CI = Capital induction or capital used in the form of fertilizers and chemicals
‘a’ and ‘b’ are respective elasticities of labour and capital.
To make the above production function linear use log on both sides. On regressing this model we will find the desired results.
Apple Export, Determinants, Gross Domestic Product Per Capita, Labour Effort, Capital Utilization Etc
