An Analysis of Financial Feasibility of Investment on Coconut Cultivation in Karnataka State

摘要

The present study intended to examine economic feasibility and financial soundness of Coconut cultivation in Karnataka state. A project evaluation method was adopted to assess the profitability of investment made on coconut gardens. Further, based onmulti-stage random sampling technique was adopted to select a sample of 240 farmers are selected from four major coconut growing districts of the state. It is clear from the results that farmers from Tumakuru, Hasan, and Chikmagalur districts were getting better returns by, selling nuts as copra and in Chikmagalur district, it is mainly because of introducing Areca nut, Banana and some other high valued crops into the garden as intercrops. However, farmers in Chitradurga district were getting very lessprofits in the state, mainly due to selling the produce as either de-husked or tender nut, with insignificant returns from intercrops. The results further revealed that large farmers were getting better profits than small and medium farmers.