1Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141001, Punjab
2Principal Scientist, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension Education & Rural Sociology, College of Agriculture, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur-176062, Himachal Pradesh
3Ph.D. Student, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension Education & Rural Sociology, College of Agriculture, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur-176062, Himachal Pradesh
4Senior Scientist, Business Development and Marketing Unit, C.S.I.R.-I.H.B.T., Palampur-176061, Himachal Pradesh
*Corresponding author email id: arshdeep.singh.khosa1@gmail.com
Online Published on 18 June, 2022.
Present study conducted to analyse the economics of major organically produced crops in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, India. Where large number of farmers are engaged in organic cultivation by default revealed that the typical size of land holding of the sample households was 0.7838 ha of which 84 per cent is cultivated land on overall farm scenario. The analysis of cropping pattern unconcealed that main organic crops are maize and paddy in kharif season and wheat and barley in rabi season. The further study disclosed that resource use pattern of organic input were jivamrit, matka khad, vermiwash, beejamrit and fermented butter milk prepared by the farmers themselves at the farm for usage within the crops. Among kharif crops, net return over variable cost was higher in maize (Rs.27,667 /ha) whereas in rabi crops, wheat (Rs. 18,023 /ha) on overall farm scenario. The benefit cost ratio of kharif crops were it was 1.24 in maize whereas in rabi crops it was 0.98 in wheat.
Hill agriculture, Marginal and Small farmers, Organic farming, Organic inputs
