AN ECONOMIC APPRAISAL OF SILK COCOON PRODUCTION IN SOUTHERN INDIA

摘要

The cross-section study on economic appraisal of silk cocoon production was conducted in three southern states of India during 2005-06. The cost concepts and farm budgetary techniques were employed to analyze the data. The study has revealed that gross return and net return were quite high under assured irrigated condition in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu than that of semi-irrigated condition in Andhra Pradesh. In the absence of minimum support price (MSP) for cocoon, most of the sample farmers were reported to be scaling down their cocoon production, which calls for framing of suitable developmental policies to increase silk cocoon productivity in the study regions.