Cost Economics of Drip Irrigated Wheat
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Drip irrigation has been successful in improving water use efficiency and yielding excellent quality of produce in most crops. However, the major constraint faced by the farmers is that of the initial capital investment. Hence, for the farmers to adopt drip irrigation on wheat crop, it becomes necessary to evaluate the cost of the drip irrigation system and come up with a setup that can reduce its cost without affecting the yield, significantly. In this study, drip irrigation has been applied to wheat crop at three lateral spacing of 0.6 m, 0.8 m and 1.0 m and three irrigation regimes of 0.6 IW/CPE (Irrigation water/cumulative pan evaporation), 0.8 IW/CPE and 1.0 IW/CPE. Cost economics for the three spacing levels and irrigation levels has been evaluated in this study. The fixed cost of drip irrigation was found to be1, 94, 632, 1,52,017 and 1,26,132, respectively for lateral spacing of 0.6 m, 0.8 m and 1.0 m. The lowest cost of cultivation in drip irrigation was found as 35643 /ha at lateral spacing of 1.0 m and irrigation level of 1.0 IW/CPE with benefit cost ratio of 1.90. The highest net return under drip irrigation system was found to be 45007/ha under lateral spacing of 0.6 m and irrigation level of 1.0 IW/CPE. The lowest benefit by cost ratio of 1.19 was obtained under the lateral spacing of 1.0 m and irrigation level of 0.6 IW/CPE.
Authors and Affiliations
D. M. Dangar, D. K. Dwivedi, H. H. Mashru
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