Economic analysis of pandal (structure for creeper crops) vegetables cultivation in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu

Abstract

In India about 50 per cent of the population depends on agriculture, majority are small land holding farmers.As per world agriculture statistics (FAO, 2010). India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits and vegetables with a large and diverse agricultural sector in the world next to China. As of now, India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture with allied sectors contributed 13.7 per cent of the GDP during 2010-11 (CSO, 2011). This research paper aims to study the cost and returns of pandal vegetables cultivation in Coimbatore District. 120 farmers was interviewed from Anamalai and Madukkarai blocks of Coimbatore District. The total establishment cost for pandal was Rs.3.2 lakhs per hectare and the investment cost for drip irrigation was Rs.0.73 lakhs per hectare. Majority of the sample farmers had experience of 21-30 years in farming and most of the farmers had 6-10 years experience in pandal vegetables cultivation. The cost of production per quintal of bitter gourd, snake gourd and ribbed gourd was Rs.1103, Rs. 981 and 952.71, respectively.

Evaluating Performance of Ridge Gourd (Luffa Acutangula Roxb.) Cultivation in Pandal System in Nalgonda District of Telangana

“…61,537/-in farmers practice method this is calculated by making average of the two year results. Balaji et al, 2016 had also reported the similar results in a study taken up in three blocks and 3 villages in each block in Tamil Nadu. Two year average of BC ratios was 2.82:1 and 3.95:1 in farmer's practice and on-farm trial respectively.…”

“…Peter et al, (2008) reported that cucurbit vegetables such as bitter gourd, snake gourd, ridge gourd, and ivy gourd grown on pandal system produced higher yields and better fruit quality in Kerala. Balaji et al, (2016) in their study reported that ribbed gourd cultivated on pandal system in 3 villages each of Anaimalai block and Madukkarai block has given an average yield of 17.50 tonnes with net returns of Rs.145285 per hectare which was technologically improved practice over traditional method of ribbed gourd cultivation in Tamilnadu.…”

Economic Analysis of Production of a Little Gourd (Coccinia grandis) in Central Gujarat

“…The cost of human labour was observed highest among all expenditures because picking/harvesting and inter-culture operations were done manually. The findings were in consonance with Balaji et al (2016); Rathod et al (2016) and Singla et al (2006). It could be also inferred from Shende et al (2015) and Rathod et al (2016).…”

“…The identical results were also reported by Hile et al (2012). The BCR results for bitter gourd reported by Balaji et al (2016) were closer to these findings. The results of overall input-output ratio on the basis of Cost C 2 was in conformity with Daundkar et al (2015), Shende et al (2015) and Krishna and Chandra (2017).…”

“…Sherif (2012) reported that creeper vegetables grown using trellis prevent root decaying caused normally due to water logging conditions. Balaji et al (2016) reported that because of high initial investment of pandal erection, which could not be afforded by marginal and small farmers, only majority of large farmers cultivated pandal vegetables which led marginal and small farmers to approach for getting pandal subsidy from government. Nevertheless, the knowledge regarding cost, return and profitability of little gourd cultivation are useful to the farmers in making various production related decisions.…”