Resource use efficiency of capsicum cultivation under open farm conditions in Himachal Pradesh

The present study was conducted to study the resource use efficiency in capsicum production in Solan District of Himachal Pradesh. Solan district of Himachal Pradesh was purposively selected for the present study because of its significant contribution to area and production of capsicum i.e, 1217 ha and 34850 MT, respectively ofHimachal Pradesh. The sum of the elasticity coefficient was found to be greater than one (1.19), which indicated increasing returns to scale, which suggest the increases in output by 1.19 per cent when all the inputs are simultaneously increased by one percent. The marginal value products (MVPs) and factor price ratios depicted that the among all the variable under study, human labour was being overutilized whereas the remaining variables viz. planting material, FYM, Fertilizers and plant protection chemicals were being underutilized by the farmers in the study area.