Dr. BN Pawar, JH Sonawane and Dr. JS Kumbhar

All across the world, organic farming and food items have grown in popularity. The resource intensive ways of Indian agriculture has raised serious sustainability issues. Organic farming is one of the way found to meet the objectives of sustainable agriculture. India is the world’s second-largest producer of wheat, accounting for almost 10% of global production. The present investigation was intended to depict the picture of cost and returns and sustainability in Pune district and it was aimed to examine resource use levels, cost and returns structure, resource use efficiencies, sources yield gap and sustainability of wheat production. The study was based on the primary data for the year 2020-21 collected from the randomly selected 60 wheat growers spread over six villages from purposively selected.
The tabular analysis techniques of averages, percentages, ratios, standard cost concepts, were used for interpretation of data. In addition, the Cobb Douglas production, output decomposition model and sustainability index were used for arriving meaningful findings.
The results of the study revealed that the total per hectare cost of cultivation under organic was higher i.e Rs. 86031.26 than on inorganic wheat production (Rs. 76003.06). The per quintal production cost under organic wheat production was Rs 3849.27 nearly doubled of per quintal cost under inorganic wheat i.e., Rs 2120.62, because per hectare yield of wheat on organic grower’s farm was lower (22.35 qt/ha) than an inorganic wheat production farms (35.84 qt/ha).The total per hectare returns obtained under organic wheat production were higher i.e. Rs.123614.35 than the inorganic wheat production (Rs 104260.00). The average market price was significantly higher for organic wheat (Rs 5335.00/qtl) was significantly high as compared to market price under inorganic wheat (Rs 2750.00/qtl).The estimated B:C ratio for organic and inorganic wheat cultivation were 1.38 and 1.29, indicated that organic wheat production was more profitable than inorganic wheat production even though the cost of cultivation was higher under organic farming in Pune District.
 

DOI: 10.22271/phyto.2020.v9.i1z.14808

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