Agro-economic performance of boro rice cultivation at farmers' level of haor area in Bangladesh

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to see the boro rice cultivation and agro-economic performance in haor area. A totalnumber of 65 farmers' were randomly selected by using random sampling technique. Data were collected from thesampled farmers' through direct interview method using a questionnaire. The study was carried out to list down theavailable 31 boro rice variety cultivated in the haor area. Most of the farmers had low capital consuming agricultural-1 machinery. Considering all farmers, per hectare labourer required for boro rice cultivation in haor area was 149 man day-1 -1 -1 ha . The highest per hectare labourer required for boro rice cultivation in haor area was found 157 man day ha in case of-1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 medium farmers followed by large (154 man day ha ), small (149 man day ha ), marginal (147 man day ha ) and-1 -1 landless (138 man day ha ) farmers, respectively. Considering full cost, the average cost of rice production was Tk.-1 38153 ha under the all sampled farmers'. Farmers' average cost of rice production for land preparation, interculturaloperation, seed, fertilizer, irrigation, pesticide, harvesting, threshing, carrying and others were of Tk. 3735, 6882, 1913,-1 6309, 2523, 782, 9277, 3421, 3074 and 237 ha , respectively. The average all sampled farmers' net-return earned form-1 -1 boro rice production was Tk. 52646 ha and yield was 5.31 t ha . The economic returns earned from rice production of Tk.-1 -1 49137, 52595, 50777, 56338 and 55003 ha against the yield of 4.97, 5.26, 5.24, 5.60 and 5.45 t ha for landless,marginal, small, medium and large farmers' categories, respectively. Productivity of boro rice is low due to imbalance useof fertilizers but yield showed higher than that of national average production in Bangladesh due to one cropped area inhaor.