The Hill farming is supposed to be very fragile due to its unique ecological entity and topographical diversities. The hills are rich in resources for horticultural crops as well as for some pulses. The present study was designed to measure resource use efficiency in rajmash production in Bhaderwah and Bhalla blocks of Doda district of J&K state. The input-output data was taken from the sample of 100 rajmash growing farmers and Cobb-Douglas type of production function was used to work out the efficiency of different resources. The results revealed that human labour, seed, manure & fertilizers and plant protection chemicals had the elasticities of 0.105, -0.388, 0.013 and 0.062, respectively and were statistically significant. The marginal value productivity were (MVP) in respect of manure &fertilizers (8.981) and plant protection chemicals (11.344) was more than unity level and for human labour (0.872) it was less than unity level. In case of machine labour (−2.275) and seed (−9.772), MVP values were found to be negative, indicated more than optimum use of these two resources.
Hill Farming, MVP, Production Function, Rajmash, Resource Use efficiency
