Land Titling and Productivity of Major Crops in Punjab

Land ownership is broadly defined as land titling or access to a land title entailing economic, social and developmental impacts. Asurvey covering 240 agricultural households, 120 each in groups of clear titles and with non- clear titles to land ownership was undertaken to determine the relationship between value of productivity in major crops i.e. paddy and wheat among clear and non-clear title households. The gross returns earned from paddy crop have been worked out as Rs. 141930/ha, net returns as Rs. 96113/ha with 3.10 as the returns per rupee of investment in clear titles group. While in the non-clear title group, gross returns were Rs. 136408 and net returns as Rs. 89315 on /ha basis gave 2.90 as returns per rupee of investment. In case of wheat crop, cost of machine labour was found to higher than human labour cost. Analysis of relationship between land title, productivity and net profit in two major crops of the state i.e. paddy and wheat has shown explanatory variables co-efficient, like human labour, fertilizers and manures, land size and dummy variables of land entitlement as significant towards net returns in case of paddy, while in wheat crop machine power, manures, plant protection chemicals and dummy variable of land entitlement were found to be significant. So, the study brings out the importance of ‘clear land titles’ having impact on profitability of farm households in the agrarian society.