Vol. 6, Issue 3 (2018)
Impact of socio- economic factors on the productivity of wheat growers of Samba district of J&K state of India
Author(s): Yudhishther Singh Bagal, Lakshmi Kant Sharma and Rajinder Peshin and Narinder Panotra
Abstract: Many researchers have delineated the factors impacting productivity of crops but few have worked on the impact of socio- economic variables on the productivity. A study to find out the social, economic and biophysical variables impacting wheat productivity in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir state was conducted. Multistage random and systematic sampling technique was adopted for selecting two blocks (one irrigated and one rainfed), 12 villages and 120 farmers. There was a significant difference in biophysical variables namely farm size, fragmented land holdings and irrigated land holding between the farmers of rainfed and irrigated belts. The area under wheat and its productivity was higher in the irrigated areas with a difference of 38 percent and 48 percent respectively. The socio- economic variables had no affect on the productivity of wheat but biophysical variables significantly impacted the wheat productivity. The economic variable namely farm households not having off- farm economic activity; biophysical variable namely irrigation facility had significantly caused a variation of more than 46 percent in the productivity of wheat crop. For enhancing the farm productivity and to increase their farm income, irrigation facilities need to be created.
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Yudhishther Singh Bagal, Lakshmi Kant Sharma, Rajinder Peshin, Narinder Panotra. Impact of socio- economic factors on the productivity of wheat growers of Samba district of J&K state of India. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(3):320-325.
