Economics and Resource use Efficiency of Little Millet Cultivation in CentralDry Zone of Karnataka

摘要

The study was conducted in Tumkur and Chitradurga districts in central dry zone of Karnataka. Cultivation of little millet found to be profitable with a positive net returns of 5619.50 and for every one rupees spended in little millet cultivation farmer realized returns of 1.72. Little millet cultivation is highly profitable compared to ragi cultivation in the rainfed area (net returns from ragi cultivation was negative ofT 830). Little millet cultivation in the rainfed area is more profitable compared to ragi. Cultivation of millets in rainfed area is one of the potential climate smart practices to fight climate uncertainties, malnutrition and poverty as millets are rich source of nutrients. The average technical, allocative and cost/economic efficiencies were found to be 0.758, 0.654 and 0.500, respectively. About 86.66 per cent farm households were having below 0.70 economic/cost efficiency score. Improvement in economic efficiency through intensive efforts on part of the farm management and extension agencies is the felt need for improving productivity of little millet and income levels at the farm level.