Year: 2022 | Month: June | 9 | 2

A Comparative Study on Costs and Returns of Inorganic and Organic Vegetable Production using Levene’s F-test: A Case Study of Himachal Pradesh

Niyati Thakur Shilpa Ravinder Sharma Ajit Sharma .Amit
DOI:10.30954/2394-8159.02.2022.13

Abstract :

Sustainability is the emerging concept in today’s world and organic farming is the backbone of the sustainability in the field of agriculture. It acts as an alternative to achieve the goal of economic as well as environmental sustainability. Organically grown vegetables are having better quality and fetching higher prices in the market as consumers are becoming more aware about nutrition and food safety with increase in education and per capita income. Organic production systems are based on specific standards, precisely formulated for food production and aim at achieving social and ecological sustainability. The results of the study showed that average family size was 4.26 and literacy rate was found quite high (97.54 %). The cultivated land accounted for 90.34 per cent of total land holdings. The cropping intensity was found to be quite impressive that is 176.16 per cent. The returns per hectare from organic vegetable farming are higher in cauliflower (` 388547.45/ha), peas (` 244150.86/ha), potato (` 313257.25/ha) and tomato (` 309826.06/ha), than the inorganic farming. The organic vegetable cultivation incurs less costs and gives more returns in all selected crops compared to inorganic vegetable cultivation. The results show that we should shift towards organic cultivation of crops in order to attain sustainability. Various scheme and other facilities from the government should be provided in order to adopt organic farming with all its effects.



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