<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency"^^ . "Appropriate choice of cropping systems to local agro-ecology\r\nincreases profitability and employment. The increased labour shortage and redced\r\nprofitability are growing concerns to the farmers. Keeping this, the paper written with the\r\nfollowing objectives: i) To assess the profitability among different cropping systems in the\r\nsemi-arid tropics; ii) To assess the labour use pattern among different cropping systems and\r\nfarm size; iii) To determine the resource use efficiency of the different cropping systems in\r\nthe SAT India; and finally iv) To assess the influence of regional/local factors on incomes of\r\nfarmers in the SAT India. The study used plot wise data collected from 16 villages from four\r\nstates namely Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat for the crop year 2010\r\nfor an in-depth analysis of the profitability and labour use among different cropping systems\r\nin semi-arid tropics of India. And it also estimated the resource use efficiency especially\r\nlabour across different farm size groups in the SAT India and finally to assess the influence\r\nof regional/local factors on profitability of farmers. The study shows that input intensive\r\ncropping systems like cotton, paddy, wheat, fruits and vegetables based cropping systems are\r\nmore profitable across many of the SAT villages compared to coarse cereals, pulses and\r\noilseeds based cropping systems. Moreover, the area under these cropping systems is\r\nincreased in the dry lands due to the introduction of Bt cotton varieties, short duration\r\nvarieties, price incentives and subsidies. Although pulses based cropping systems remain\r\nattractive due to higher prices and less labour requirement, needs to provide incentives to\r\nincrease area given its environmental benefits in enriching the soil. Most of the villages are\r\nexperiencing the shortage of labour as indicated by higher marginal productivity of labour\r\nand increasing trend of mechanisation. Farm size is having positive association with the\r\nhired labour use and farm mechanisation, but having negative association with family\r\nlabour. Female employment has inverted “U” shape relation with farm size. This indicates\r\nthat the farms with more than five hectares of land are detrimental to women employment as\r\nfarm mechanization in large farms replaces women labour\r\n"^^ . "2013" . . . "MPRA Paper"^^ . . . . . . . . "A A"^^ . "Reddy"^^ . "A A Reddy"^^ . . . . . . "Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "MPRA_paper_52790.pdf"^^ . . . "Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . . "Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Farm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #7342 \n\nFarm profitability and Labour Use Efficiency\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics"@en . .