An empirical study of economics of sugarcane cultivation and processing based farming in Uttar Pradesh

Sugarcane is one of the major cash crop of India and most important crop of Uttar Pradesh, which not only support the economy of Uttar Pradesh but also the major crop which is the source of income of millions of farmers, whether marginal, small, medium or large. In the present study, an attempt has been made to analyze the economics of sugarcane based farming system i.e. sugarcane cultivation by all the categories of farmers, cost benefit ratio from sugarcane cultivation, major products of sugarcane and their economy etc. This study has been done for Uttar Pradesh and four districts have been selected for a parallel study but the detail study has been done in Bulandshahr District through primary observation.