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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2019, Volume : 7, Issue : 6
First page : (259) Last page : (263)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.7836

Resource Productivity of Maize Crop under Rainfed Condition in Thoothukudi District

S. Shree Vathana¹, T. Rajendran^2*, R. Pangayar Selvi³ and A. Sundar^4
1II M.Sc (Ag), Agrl. Economics, ^2,4Assistant Professor Agrl. Economics, ³Assistant Professor Mathematics
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Department of Social Sciences, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Killikulam, Vallanad, Thoothukudi Dist – 628 252
*Corresponding Author E-mail: rajendran.t@tnau.ac.in
Received: 1.11.2019  |  Revised: 7.12.2019   |  Accepted: 15.12.2019  

 ABSTRACT

Maize “Queen of Cereals” is the second most important cereal crop in the world. In India, Maize consumption has been increased by 2 per cent from preceding year 21 MT to 24 MT during 2015 – 2016. India had emerged as one of the largest feed industry growing at compound annual growth rate of 8 per cent mainly in Tamil Nadu growing at faster rate for cattle and poultry feed. Primary data have been collected from 120 sample farmers in Kovilpatti Block with pre-tested interview schedule. Resource use efficiency of individual farms has been estimated using Cobb-Douglas production function analysis. The R2 was 0.73 which indicates that 73 per cent of the variations in the yield were influenced by explanatory variables.The functional analysis revealed that in maize production under rainfed condition the inputs like seeds, nitrogen, potash and machine labour were positively significant and the inputs like farmyard manure, phosphorous, plant protection chemicals and human labour were non-significant. In case of allocative efficiency all the significant inputs had a ratio of MVP to MFC greater than one indicating that inputs are under-utilized and there is a possibility of increasing the yield by increasing the input use. The technical efficiency analysis interprets that the 55.56 per cent of farmers were under medium efficiency group, 38.89 per cent under low efficiency and the minimum of 5.56 per cent were  under high efficiency group. The majority of sample farmers were under medium efficiency group in technical efficiency.

Keywords:  Resource use, Cobb – Douglas production function, Rainfed conditions, Allocative efficiency

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Cite this article: Vathana, S.S., Rajendran, T., Selvi, R.P., & Sundar, A. (2019). Resource Productivity of Maize Crop under Rainfed Condition in Thoothukudi District, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 7(6), 259-263. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.7836