Learning Objectives

PRACTICAL 16: COST OF CULTIVATION

AIM:
Most vegetables crops are of short duration and fit well into many remunerative crop rotation and cropping patterns like intercropping, multiple cropping and companion cropping. All the efforts to produce a particular crop will go waste if economics to cultivate is not taken care of. Various aspects like cost of seed and other inputs, labour involved in performing different field operations, harvesting, post harvest handling and marketing are to be taken care of in producing a particular commodity. The present chapter on root crops (radish and carrot) and bulb crop (onion ) will make the students familiar regarding various steps involved in calculating cost of cultivation of various temperate vegetable crops so as to make the vegetable cultivation a success.
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