Journal of Research, SKUAST-J

Basmati rice is highly flavored variety of superfine paddy grown in sub-tropical area of the state Jammu and Kashmir namely Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts. Cultivation of Basmati Rice under diversified cropping system is ideally suitable due to its low water requirement and very less attack of insects- pests and diseases. There is good scope for area expansion under this crop. To increase the production of Basmati Rice in the State and generate more potential for export of the scented of crop is possible presently and area of 0.85 lack hectare is under Rice cultivation in all these three Districts of the State, including both coarse as well as fine Rice Verities. The area under Basmati can be increased further by about 25% by replacement of coarse varieties, which comes around to 50 thousand hectares. Local Basmati and Basmati 370 are the most popular varieties grown in the said area. These varieties have a great potential for export. In this context the present study has been taken to know the input and output structure of Basmati Rice with two objectives viz. (i.) To examine the cost structure of Basmati Rice on different farm size group, and (ii) To analyze the return structure of different farm size groups. This study was confined to three villages namely Chakroi,Gharana and Gharani of C.D. Block R.S.Pura, district Jammu purposely on the basis of almost all the farmers in these villages grow Basmati Rice on their farms. Farmers were categorized in to three categories on the basis of owned holdings viz. small, medium and large. Thus a sample of 60 farmers consisting 20 samples from each category were selected and studied. The per hectare cost of cultivation came to Rs. 20914.02 in small farms, Rs. 20960.87 on medium farms, Rs. 18824.73 in large farms and Rs. 20233.21 in over all farms. The net income from Basmati rice per hectare came to Rs.32450.62 on small farms, Rs. 29887.78 on medium farms, Rs. 29505.78 on large farms and Rs. 30608.06 on overall farms respectively.