📄 Abstract
<p>After conducting the field experiments, based on primary data as yield obtained from present research work and with the help of questionnaire through personal interview from farmers, cost benefit analysis on out come in field experiment for Bitter Guard crop was carried out. Five treatments were taken as vermicompost (T<sub>1</sub>) @ 2.6 t/ha, NADEP compost (T<sub>2</sub>) @ 6.25 t/ha, pit compost (T<sub>3</sub>) @ 6.25 t/ha, chemical fertilizers (T<sub>4</sub>) @ 100:50:50 Kg of NPK/ha control (T<sub>5</sub>) were applied to plot area (1 hector) with recommended dose of fertilizers. The average yield per hectare of Bitter Guard were obtained 8381 kg, 6026 kg, 4450 kg, 7698 kg and 8,361 kg in the treatment T<sub>1</sub>, T<sub>2</sub>, T<sub>3</sub>, T<sub>4</sub> and T<sub>5</sub> respectively. The cost of cultivation per hectare for of Bitter Guard crop have been estimated to be Rs 1,25,709 in treatment T<sub>1, </sub>Rs 1,17,165 in treatment T<sub>2, </sub>Rs 1,07,972 in treatment T<sub>3, </sub>Rs 1,08,886 in treatment T<sub>4 </sub>and Rs 1,07,837 in treatment T<sub>5</sub>. The profit comes out to be Rs 1,67,626 in treatment T<sub>1</sub>, Rs 93,745 in treatment T<sub>2</sub>, Rs 47,778 in treatment T<sub>3</sub>, Rs 1,60,544 in treatment T<sub>4</sub> and Rs 1,84,798 in the treatment T<sub>5</sub>. Gross return Rs was higher than cost of cultivation therefore profit obtained in all the treatments were positive. The input output ratios were about 2.33, 1.80, 1.44, 2.47 and 2.71 in the treatment T<sub>1</sub>, T<sub>2</sub>, T<sub>3</sub>, T<sub>4</sub> and T<sub>5</sub> respectively. Control treatment (T<sub>5</sub>) was definitely an encouraging maximum return as compared to remaining fertilizer treatments in three months.</p> <p><strong>KEYWORDS: </strong>Bitter guard<strong>, c</strong>hemical, cost, economic, vermicompost, yield.</p>
📚 How to Cite:
M.M. Vedpathak , Volume 6 , Issue 2, february 2018, EPRA International Journal of Economic and Business Review(JEBR) ,