Author(s):

P Anitha, R Senthil kumar, T Rajendran and C Muralidharan

Abstract: Resource use efficiency of sugarcane cultivation estimated in Tirunelveli district with primary data. One block from the district has been selected considering area under sugarcane cultivation. Sugar factory in the study area promotes increase in the sugarcane cultivation. Cobb-Douglas production function is used to estimate the resource use efficiency. R2 value is found to be 0.60 indicating 60% of variation in Sugarcane Yield. The result shows that Machine labour and Nitrogen shows positive and significant results. The MVP to MIC ratio of inputs such as Phosphorus and Urea are more than unity which means the resources were under-utilized. For other inputs MVP to MIC ratio such as Sugarcane setts, machine labour, human labour, irrigation, potash are less than unity which means resources are over utilized.

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