1Post graduate student, Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482 004 (Madhya Pradesh)
2Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482 004 (Madhya Pradesh)
3Ph. D. Scholar, Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482 004 (Madhya Pradesh)
Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, 482 004 (Madhya Pradesh)
*Corresponding Author's Email: vikasjhorarhmh22@gmail.com
Online published on 9 January, 2020.
An attempt has been made to examine the resource use efficiency of Bt cotton in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan. The purposive random sampling method was used to select 60 farmers. Survey method was adopted to conduct the inquiry by personal interview with the help of interview schedule. The Cobb-Douglas production function was used for estimation of the resources use efficiency. The results revealed that the Marginal Value Product (MVP) to Marginal Factor Cost (MFC) ratio for human labour (1.44), machine labour (5.07), seed (12.76) and irrigation (1.88) were found to be underutilized, which implies the increased usage of these inputs add to the gross income from cultivation of Bt cotton. Hence, there is an ample potential of raising Bt cotton production through adoption of improved and new technologies and optimum utilization of resources like human labour, machine labour, seed, manure and fertilizer, plant protection chemical (PPC) and irrigation with better management practices.
Bt cotton, Marginal value product, Marginal factor cost, Resource use efficiency
