PROFITABILITY OF WHEAT CROP CULTIVATION IN SUGAR CROP DOMINATED AREA: ECONOMIC AND CLIMATIC STUDY
ELAHI, M., SHAH, M., MANSOOR, M., LATIF, N., HUSSAIN, N., SADEK, I., AHMED, N. (2018). PROFITABILITY OF WHEAT CROP CULTIVATION IN SUGAR CROP DOMINATED AREA: ECONOMIC AND CLIMATIC STUDY. EKB Journal Management System, 96(1), 275-285. doi: 10.21608/ejar.2018.132774
Mahemed E. ELAHI; Mahmoud SHAH; Mohamed MANSOOR; Noaman LATIF; Nazeer HUSSAIN; Ihabe I. SADEK; NAGWA M. AHMED. "PROFITABILITY OF WHEAT CROP CULTIVATION IN SUGAR CROP DOMINATED AREA: ECONOMIC AND CLIMATIC STUDY". EKB Journal Management System, 96, 1, 2018, 275-285. doi: 10.21608/ejar.2018.132774
ELAHI, M., SHAH, M., MANSOOR, M., LATIF, N., HUSSAIN, N., SADEK, I., AHMED, N. (2018). 'PROFITABILITY OF WHEAT CROP CULTIVATION IN SUGAR CROP DOMINATED AREA: ECONOMIC AND CLIMATIC STUDY', EKB Journal Management System, 96(1), pp. 275-285. doi: 10.21608/ejar.2018.132774
ELAHI, M., SHAH, M., MANSOOR, M., LATIF, N., HUSSAIN, N., SADEK, I., AHMED, N. PROFITABILITY OF WHEAT CROP CULTIVATION IN SUGAR CROP DOMINATED AREA: ECONOMIC AND CLIMATIC STUDY. EKB Journal Management System, 2018; 96(1): 275-285. doi: 10.21608/ejar.2018.132774

PROFITABILITY OF WHEAT CROP CULTIVATION IN SUGAR CROP DOMINATED AREA: ECONOMIC AND CLIMATIC STUDY

Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research
Article 34, Volume 96, Issue 1, March 2018, Page 275-285  XML PDF (745.77 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/ejar.2018.132774
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Authors
Mahemed E. ELAHI1; Mahmoud SHAH2; Mohamed MANSOOR1; Noaman LATIF1; Nazeer HUSSAIN1; Ihabe I. SADEK3; NAGWA M. AHMED3
1Arid Zone Research Center (PARC), Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
2Department of Economic, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan
3Central Lab. for Agricultural Climate (CLAC); Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt.
Abstract
recently, sugarcane largely introduced in "Dera Ismail Khan" (D.I.Khan) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan, especially during the summer season. The current study was conducted at Arid Zone Research Centre (AZRC), Dera Ismail Khan (D.I.Khan) to evaluate cost and benefit, as well as climatic profile suitability for wheat cultivation, during 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons. A sample of 200 respondents from 10 major wheat-growing villages of the respective areas of the district was interviewed through the pre-tested questionnaire. The study revealed that the cost of wheat production was Rs. 35,680 per acres, whereas output comes 1680 kg per acre (42 mounds) amounting Rs. 63,600 per acres. Farmers’ margin also rises by adding the value of family labour and owned land, which is sufficient to sustain a normal family. Moreover, a positive influence between return price and output of wheat was concluded from the study, whereas the negative effect of the cost was also observed. The output elasticity of Land preparation (LP), Seed and Sowing (SS), Farm inputs (FI), Irrigation (Irr), Pesticides/insecticides (Pest) and Harvester threshing (HT) are 0.124587, 0.31244, 0.5874, 0.55461, 0.08248 and 0.65743, respectively. From a climatic point of view, calculated accumulated growing degree days all over the studied seasons at the studied district were about 2663.5 degree days two seasons average. This is sufficient for the used type of wheat at this area to push the different growing stages and present economic crop yield.
Keywords
Wheat; Cost; Return; Profit; climatic profile; growing degree days; Cobb-Douglas; Arid Zone; D.I. Khan; Pakistan
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