Abstract:
After wheat and cotton, rice is third crop, which is mostly growth in Pakistan. Its production is facing difficulties like shortage of land, and low availability of water. So to improve production, low cost, mild cost and high cost technologies can be used along with farmer’s practice to increase production. Plant population, rate of fertilizer and weeding are classified in these technologies. Farmers practice gave paddy yield up to 1439 Kg/acre and low cast technology gave 1719 Kg/acre. Mid cost and high cost technologies gave 2189 and 2439 Kg/ acre paddy yield respectively the increase in low cast technology increased yield by 19.5%, mid cost by 47.5% and that of high cost by 63.7% over farmer’s practice. Economic implications suggested that net profit was highest where ratio of marginal revenue and cost is one. On this basis, farmer’s can be advised to add more inputs included in high cost technologies. Course yield at the high at the research station was average about 800 Kg/ hectare.
Page(s):
13-14
DOI:
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Published:
Journal: Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences, Volume: 4, Issue: 1--2, Year: 2006