AN ECONOMIC STUDY ON PANIKACHU PRODUCTION IN JESSORE DISTRICT

P Hajong, S Mondal, D Saha, S Ishtiaque and S K Paul
Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 137-141

Abstract:

The study was undertaken to assess the input use pattern, cost of production, economic profitability, and contribution of different factors of Panikachu production in Jessore dictrict of Bangladesh. The study area were purposively selected and a total of 60 panikachu growers taking 30 from each upazila. Total quantity of different input of human labor, seedling, manure, insecticide, irrigation and fertilizer were 910 man days/ha, 37895 no./ha, 10000 Tk ha-1, 13044 Tk ha-1, 25989 Tk ha-1 and 2974 Kg ha-1 respectively. Total cost of production of Panikachu was 358966 Tk ha-1 where 316537 Tk ha-1 was variable cost and fixed cost was 42429 Tk ha-1. Among the cost item labor cost was the high as 50.69% and fertilizer cost 17.43 % cost of production. The yield of rhizome and stolon were 50 ton and 35 ton ha-1. The average gross return was calculated as Tk 655000 ha-1. The net margin of Panikachu cultivation was 296034 Tk ha-1. On the average, benefit cost ratio was 1.82 on full cost basis and 2.07 on cash cost basis. All the co-efficient of human labor, seedling, urea and MoP were positive and significant impact on the yield of Panikachu production. The coefficient of determination was 0.57. Ninety five percent farmers mentioned that they faced insects and disease infestation at Panikachu cultivation.

Keywords:

Economic, panikachu, production


Full Text

PDF

745 Views


Cite this article

P Hajong, S Mondal, D Saha, S Ishtiaque and S K Paul. 2015. AN ECONOMIC STUDY ON PANIKACHU PRODUCTION IN JESSORE DISTRICT, Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University 2(1): 137-141.