An economic analysis of paddy production in Tiruvannamalai district – Tamil Nadu during the period 1997-2007

Abstract

Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian Economy. It is the largest sector of economic activity. More than 63 per cent of the total population has been living depending on agriculture in the country. So the agriculture is the most dominant sector of such an economy. India’s agriculture export present 9% of the value of total exports while the share of agriculture in total imports is just 5% India’s agricultural exports totaled $9.3 billion in the year 2007. While imports were worth roughly $5.5 billion, in the sampling 90.0 percent and 96.0 percent of the marginal and small farmers were male. 10.0 percent and 4 percent of marginal farmers were female this confine that 96.0 percent of the small farmers were engaged in paddy cultivation.  It reveals that the yield expectancy of marginal farmers were less than small farmer due to lack of irrigation new methods etc. The 71 per cent were applying fertilizer in their land. Among them small farmer were 56.35 percent 43.67 percent contributed by marginal farmer. 29 per cent of the respondents were not applying the fertilizer which mentioned. The increasing trend of paddy production is due to application of fertilizer.