Md. Nozrul Islam
Senior Scientific Officer
Agricultural Economics Division, BARI, Gazipur
An experiment was carried out to evaluate the performance of tomato, watermelon, cucumber and chilli under different planting and irrigation technique in the saline soils of charmajid, Noakahli, during the rabi season of 2005-06. Besides a survey was conducted on the same crops during same period at farmers field adjacent to the project site to compare the results between experiment and farmers field. In addition, an analysis was done to see the economic return of rain water harvesting of a pond in the project site. Based on economic analysis, the best performance was found by the treatment T5 where applied drip irrigation in raised bed with mulch for the production of tomato, water melon and cucumber while chili performed better under the treatment T4 where applied irrigation by cane in raised bed with mulch in comparison with different treatment and farmers field. Rain water harvesting in a pond/ditch showed economically profitable for fish culture as well as crop cultivation in the project site.
Economiv analysis, treatment, saline soil.
Noakhali district
To assess the profitability of some selected crops which grown under an experiment with different treatments on the farmers field in saline soils.
Four crops such as tomato (variety: BARI tomato-3) watermelon (variety: glory), cucumber (variety: Shila) and Chilli (variety: local) were grown under different irrigation and planting techniques in saline soils of charmajid, Noakhali during the rabi season of 2005-2006. For economic analysis the necessary data i.e quantity of different inputs used, price of each input, yield and price of output etc were recorded for individual crops, return as well as partial budgeting and marginal rate of return. Besides, a survey was conducted on same obtained from an experiment. A total of 20 farmers, 5 for each crop were interviewed through pre-designed questionnaire. Collected data were summarized, analyzed and presented in tabular form. The survey and analysis of data also covered the rabi season of 2005-2006. In addition, a study was undertaken to find out the economic return of rain water harvesting of a pond in the project site for the cultivation of crops and fish.
Annual Research Report 2006, Agricultural Economics Division, BARI, Gazipur
The study reveals that the total cost of cultivation of tomato was Tk. 35024/ha, watermelon Tk. 36,338 cucumber Tk.35016/ha and chili Tk. 24,423/ha at farmers field. The cost of cultivation of all the crops was more or less same except chili which was lower. The average yield of tomato, was 20.58, watermelon was 37.05, cucumber was 30.59 and chili was 1.44t/ha. It was observed from the study that the farmers received higher gross return (Tk.185250/ha) and higher net return (Tk.148912/ha) from cultivation of watermelon followed by tomato, cucumber and chilli. Benefit cost ratio was also higher for watermelon (5.01) followed by tomato (4.07), cucumber (4.36) and chili (3.54). However, all the crops under the study were found profitable to the farmers. Net return as well as benefit cost ratio for all the crops were higher in farmer’s field compared to treatment T2 under experiment. Above all, rain water harvesting in the study area has been found economically profitable for fish culture as well as irrigation during the dry season. As a result, income of the farmers may increase in the area which would help improve their livelihood.
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