Author(s):

V Swetha, S Senthilnathan, T Rajendran and R Gangaiselvi

Abstract: A study was conducted in a block of Tirunelveli district in which the technical efficiency of cultivation of pulses was studied. Tirunelveli is one among the districts in Tamil Nadu which has a major population of farmers cultivating black gram. But the major drawback of the farmers is the lack of awareness and lack of knowledge about high yielding varieties. Hence study was conducted to find the technical efficiencies and their production capabilities. The study included 120 samples taken from three blocks, from each block two villages were covered. The results showed that in the study area not all the black gram farmers were technically efficient. The Mean technical efficiency of the black gram farmers in the study were 67%, in which there was 33 per cent allowance to improve efficiency. It was observed that for the production of black gram the factors like seed and weedicide are highly positively significant at one per cent level. Similarly, urea and insecticide was found to be positively significant at five per cent level on the yield only four variables affect the yield significantly and other variables such as DAP and labour usage showed non-significance. The determinants of technical efficiency of production using Tobit model was analysed in which the results showed among the socio economic variables (independent variables) experience, education showed significance at 1% and 5% level, and farm size also showed 1% significance. The technical efficiency parameters and the determinants of efficiency of socio economic variables were computed by using the computer software STATA.

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