Agricultural Engineering Today
Year : 2000, Volume : 24, Issue : 4
First page : ( 29) Last page : ( 33)
Print ISSN : 0970-2962.

Comparative economics of adopters and non adopters of drainage technology in Dankuni basin of West Bengal

Patra S.K.*, Senapati T.K.*, Ray R.*, Mukhopadhyay A.K.*

* All India Coordinated Research Project on Agricultural Drainage.

** Department of Agricultural Economics Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, Pin-741235.

Abstract

A sample survey consisting of eight farm households each of adoption and non-adoption of drainage measures or its alternatives was conducted in the Serampore block of Hooghly district under Dankuni basin of West Bengal during 1998–99 for economic evaluation. The results show that the adopting farms had larger land holding under each of the three categories of high, medium and low land, as compared to the non-adopting farms. The average gross and net return per farm, per cultivated hectare and benefit-cost ratio were substantially higher for the adopters of the drainage technology. The relative dominance of jute crop was found in the cropping pattern of the adopters, while the non-adopters devoted 10% higher area under paddy. The net return-cost ratio for aodpters in medium land was 0.67 as against 0.28 reported for the non-adopters in medium land. The cropping pattern of the adopters in medium land was more diversified as compared to the non-adopting counterparts. Subsistence crop like paddy played a predominant role in the cropping pattern of the non-adopters in medium land, whlie the adopters had given more emphasis to commercial crops.

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