Resource use efficiency in bottle gourd for the contract vis-à-vis non-contract farms in the Jaipur District of Rajasthan

The present investigation was undertaken with a view to analyze the resource use efficiency of bottle gourd under contract vis-à-vis non-contract farming in the Jaipur district of Rajasthan. In this regard a contracting firm, Rajasthan Olive Cultivation Ltd. was selected. Three villages were selected for the study from which 30 contract and 20 non-contract farmers were selected randomly. Primary data were collected for the agricultural year 2015-16. The conventional budgeting technique and multiple regression functions were used to analyze the data. The net income per hectare from bottle gourd cultivation was 31.69 per cent higher on contract farms as compared to the non-contract farms. The regression results revealed that out of six explanatory variables, only five variables namely; human labour, machine labour, seed, irrigation and fertilizer were significantly influencing gross return of contract and non-contract farms.