1Department of Agricultural Economics, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, India
2Directorate of Human Resource Management, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, India
The present study was carried out to study the resource use efficiency in sugarcane cultivation. One block having maximum area under sugarcane namely Radaur and Rohtak from Yamunanagar and Rohtak district respectively was selected purposively. Further three villages of each selected block were selected randomly. From each village, 20 farmers were selected randomly. Finally, 120 farmers of six villages were interviewed to extract all desired information. Cobb-douglas production function was fitted to work out the extent of efficacy of resource use in sugarcane cultivation. The outcomes of study reveal that in planted conditions of Yamunanagar, expenditure on machine labour and seed whereas in Rohtak, expenditure on human labour, seed, chemical fertilizers and plant protection fertilizers were found positive and statistically significant specifying inefficiency of these inputs. In ratoon conditions of Yamunanagar, expenditure on human labour, plant protection chemicals and irrigation was found to be positive and statistically significant indicating that inputs were not used efficiently whereas, in Rohtak, the inputs under-utilized were human labour, plant protection chemicals and chemical fertilizers.
• The results of the study reveal that except the machine labour and seed in planted conditions of sugarcane, all the inputs exhibit increasing return to scale.
Sugarcane, Cobb- Douglas Production Function, Returns to scale, Marginal Value Productivity
