Agro-economic performance of boro rice cultivation at farmers’ level of haor area in Bangladesh

Authors : Sahjahan ALİ, Md Abul KASHEM, Md Abdul AZİZ

Pages : 78-82

Doi:10.31015/jaefs.2019.2.5

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Publication Date : 2019-06-28

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The present study is an attempt to see the boro rice cultivation and agro-economic performance in haor area. A total number of 65 farmers’ were randomly selected by using random sampling technique. Data were collected from the sampled farmers’ through direct interview method using a questionnaire. The study was carried out to list down the available 31 boro rice variety cultivated in the haor area. M ost of the farmers had low capital consuming agricultural machinery. Considering all farmers, per hectare labourer required for boro rice cultivation in haor area was 149 man day -1 ha -1 . The highest per hectare labourer required for boro rice cultivation in haor area was found 157 man day -1 ha -1 in case of medium farmers followed by large insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(154 man day -1 ha -1 );, small insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(149 man day -1 ha -1 );, marginal insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(147 man day -1 ha -1 ); and landless insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(138 man day -1 ha -1 ); farmers, respectively. Considering full cost, the average cost of rice production was Tk. 38153 ha -1 under the all sampled farmers’. Farmers’ average cost of rice production for land preparation, intercultural operation, seed, fertilizer, irrigation, pesticide, harvesting, threshing, carrying and others were of Tk. 3735, 6881.92, 1912.95, 6308.64, 2523.20, 782.80, 9277.07, 3421.27, 3073.57 and 236.87 ha -1 , respectively. The average all sampled farmers’ net-return earned form boro rice production was Tk. 52646 ha -1 and yield was 5.31 t ha -1 . The economic returns earned from rice production of Tk. 49137, 52595, 50777, 56338 and 55003 ha -1 against the yield of 4.97, 5.26, 5.24, 5.60 and 5.45 t ha -1 for landless, marginal, small, medium and large farmers’ categories , respectively. Productivity of boro rice is low due to imbalance use of fertilizers but yield showed higher than that of national average production in Bangladesh due to one cropped area in haor .      
Keywords : Farmers level, Yield, Haor, Agro economic, Variety, Haor