ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF COST AND RETURN, AND PROFITABILITY OF SUGARCANE PRODUCTION IN CUDDALORE DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU
Journal Title: International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 8
Abstract
Sugarcane is a long duration crop and it is the source of white sugar and goor. But sugarcane area is decreasing day by day during the period of 2009-10,2010-11 and 2011-12 total sugarcane area were 1.18 lack ha, 1.16 lack ha and 1.08 lack ha respectively (BBS, 2013). 50% of sugarcane area is located in the mill zones, where sugarcane is utilized for sugar production and remaining 50% is situated in the non-mill zone, which is used for goor and juice production (Alam et al., 2005). At this moment there is no scope to increase the sugarcane area in plain land. But there is a scope to increase sugarcane cultivation in char lands, saline belt and hilly area. Cultivation of sugarcane on fallow char lands is getting popularity as the farmers are getting financially benefited through its cultivation. The Shares of cost of major inputs for sugarcane production in the mills zones are seed (11.44%), Fertilizer (12.58%), pesticide (3.40%), irrigation (1.90%) and transportation for cane supply to the mills (8.79%) (Kabir & Alam, 2000). Sugarcane cultivation has been creating employment and self-employment opportunities for the unprivileged people living in hardly reachable and remote reverie char areas round the years to improve their life and livelihood. In India, the sugar industry is the second largest industry next to the textile industry in playing a vita lrole in the socio-economic transformation of country (Wagh, 2015). The sugar industry being an important agro-based industry provides livelihoods to about 6 million sugarcane farmers and around 7 lakh workers who are employed in the sugar mills. India ranked second in sugarcane production in the world, after Brazil, with an area of 5.31 million hectares and production of 366.8 million tonnes with productivity of 69.1 tonnes/ha during 2014-15 (ISMA, 2015). The area and production of sugarcane in Tamil Nadu during 2014-15 was 2.55 lakh ha and 22.3 Mt, respectively and the Productivity was 104 t/ha in the year 2013-14 (Government of Tamil Nadu, 2015). The main aim of the present study is to measure and examine cost –returns of sugarcane production and examine the socio-economic conditions of sugarcane cultivators and also examine problem facing by sugarcane cultivators in Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu.
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R. Amala And Dr. N. Rajagopal
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