Cotton in Madurai District: An Econometric AnalysisIt meets a long-felt need for a comprehensive analysis of cotton crop at the micro level; focussing on cost-return structure, farm-size and efficiency, labour absorption, elasticity of supply with respect to fixed inputs and variable inputs, demand for variable inputs with respect to cotton price, etc. It will prove an essential reading not only to the academics but also to the planners, policy-makers and government agencies. Review The Study aims at analysing the cost and return structure, determinants of yield, yield gap, supply and demand elasticities, absorption of labour and economic efficiency of the two farmer groups producing the LRA-5166 and MCU-5 varieties of cotton in two blocks of district Madurai. On the whole study offers a major base of techniques and systematic orientation of a research design. Dr. H.P. Singh, Review Projector (India), Vol. 8, Nos. 4-6. |
Contents
I | 1 |
II | 7 |
OF VARIABLES | 30 |
IV | 45 |
VI | 77 |
DETERMINANTS OF YIELD AND YIELD | 101 |
VII | 111 |
ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY | 129 |
IX | 137 |
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Andipatti and Theni Andipatti Block area irrigated area sown area under cotton average benefit-cost ratio bullock labour bullock pair cent level chemical fertilizers cost and return cost of production cotton cultivation demand for labour Dindigul economic efficiency emerged statistically significant F-value farm activities farmer groups farmers and large female labour Figures in parentheses firka five per cent fixed capital fixed cost groups of farmers hectares hired labour human labour India Interest on fixed irrigated irrigated area Kalirajan labour absorption large farmers producing Madurai district male labour MCU-5 variety operating cost output supply paddy pearl millet percentage Periyakulam taluk pesticides price efficiency producers of LRA-5166 producers of MCU-5 production elasticities profit function profit maximization respectively return structure returns to scale sample seemingly unrelated regression small and large small farmers structural difference TABLE Tamil Nadu Theni Block total area total cost Uthamapalayam variable inputs varieties of cotton yield per acre