Profitability and Resource Use Efficiency of Mustard in Jammu District of JK (UT)

摘要

A study was conducted in Jammu district of JK- UT where out of 20 development blocks falling in Jammu district, R.S. Pura and Bishnah blocks were selected randomly. Mustard crop is among the oldest cultivated plants in human Civilization. Biologically, the Mustard plants belongs to the family Cruciferous and under the genus Brassica. The mustard crop grows all over the world but their cultivation is mainly confined to India, China, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, USA, etc. Mustard has largest area of 8 million ha in Canada followed by China (7 million ha) and India (6 million ha). Area of mustard crop in world is 355.20 lakh hectares, its Production is 714.50 lakh tones and Productivity is 2010 kg/ha respectively for the year 2015-16 (Kumrawat et al. 2018). The primary data on inputs involved in production of Mustard were collected by surveying through an interview with the help of pre-tested questionnaire. The results related to the production function analysis revealed that machine labor, seed and fertilizers made significant impact on the gross returns and have positive values of regression coefficient and human labor have negative but significant value in case of all farms. But it is found in the study that all factors have significant effect on the gross return except human labor.