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ECONOMICS OF BANANA PRODUCTION IN AMRAVATI DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA

A. K. Vitonde & R. K. Patil

Abstract

Maharashtra with an area of 54,200 hectares under banana, an annual production of 13,39,000 tonnes which is top in the country. It can give up to 50 tonnes of fruits per acre and per capita consumption of banana is about 50 kg per head in India. Looking to the increasing popularity of banana, the relevant data were collected from the five villages of Amravati district for working out the cost of cultivation, cost of production, resource productivity and resource use efficiency. The total sample constituted of 60 banana growing cultivators from small, medium and large size groups were selected in order to assess the potentials of crop. The profitability of the crop can be determined from the relationship between the cost incurred in the process of production and the return accrued from it. If the return accrued is greater than the cost incurred, then it can be utilized for the capital formation in agriculture. Economics of production was to be evaluated on the basis of cost A, B, C and also the gross return per hectare from banana were positively co-related with the size of holdings. The production of banana was profitable at all the cost concepts and on all the size group of farmers. The highest input-output ratios at cost’ A’ cost ‘B’ and cost ‘c’ was on small sized group followed by medium sized group and large sized group

Keyword: Banana, Production and Profitability

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