Ginger as a major cash crop cultivation of Himachal Pradesh has a unique place in its production in the state. The crop has immense potentiality towards generating farm income as well as employment thereby improving the standards of living of the farmers. On account of a very limited research on the production aspect of ginger cultivation in the state, depth analysis of the economics of ginger cultivation assumes importance with the objective of determining the various cost and returns pattern of ginger production. The sample data comprised ginger growers categorized as 60 marginal, 32 small, 18 medium and 10 large farmers, classified on the basis of probability proportion to size of holdings. The study revealed that the variable costs varied inversely to the size of holdings meaning that it was highest for the marginal and small farms and least for the large farms. The same pattern was found to be true for the total costs of ginger cultivation whereas the fixed costs were found to be directly proportional to the farm sizes. Moreover the study also revealed that seeds occupied a larger share in the variable costs for all the farm sizes whereas rental value of owned land had the largest share (74.00- 78.00 per cent) in the total fixed cost. Data analysis revealed that the large sized farms were highly efficient with the highest net returns from ginger cultivation. The worked out the highest seed cost of ginger i.e. 27.57 per cent among all the size of holdings. Thus, further it can be concluded from the present study that return per rupee, benefit-cost ratio and breakeven point of ginger crop came out the highest on the large size of holdings i.e. Rs. 3.82, Rs. 3.47:1 and 0.30 tones production per hectare.
Variable costs, fixed costs, Net-Return, RPR, BCR and BEP
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