Inclusion of Seed Production in Rice Based Cropping Sequence as a Means for Doubling Farmers’ Income

Author: Sanjib Ranjan Borah, Pompi Dutta, Sameeron Bhattacharjya, Milan Jyoti Konwar, Mayuri Baruah, Arunima Bharali, Rituraj Saikia, Jyoti Lekha Borah and Sanjay Kr Chetia

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Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during the year 2020-21 at Laliti village under Dhekargarah Development Block, Jorhat, Assam to study the productivity and profitability of different rice-based cropping systems with medium duration high yielding winter paddy variety TTB 404 (Shraboni) developed by Assam Agricultural University followed by high yielding toria variety TS-38 with special emphasis on seed production towards doubling farmer’s income under rainfed, medium land rice ecosystem. Farmers of the area generally practice grain production and thus get low return from sale of their crop. Treatments comprises of three different cropping systems with different crop enterprises. The highest production use efficiency (PUE) (0.23 q/ha/day) and land use efficiency (LUE) (0.61 %) was observed in HYV winter paddy (TTB-404)-HYV of Toria (TS-38) sequence under seed production followed by HYV of winter paddy (TTB-404)- HYV of Toria (TS-38) (PUE- 0.19 q/ha/day & LUE-0.61%) sequence under grain production. However, the highest grain yield in terms of rice grain equivalent yield (84.6 q/ha) was found in HYV of winter paddy (TTB-404)-HYV of Toria (TS-38) sequence under seed production followed by HYV of winter paddy (TTB-404)-HYV of Toria (TS-38) sequence under grain production (70.7 q/ha). The highest gross return, net return and benefit - cost ratio was recorded in winter paddy (TTB-404)-Toria(TS-38) sequence under seed production (Rs. 2,53,860, Rs. 1,63,510 and 2.8) followed by winter paddy (TTB-404)-Toria (TS-38) sequence under grain production(Rs. 70,660.80, Rs. 30,760.80 and 1.8) respectively. Thus, introduction of seed production has increased the farmer’s net income from Rs. 30, 760 to 1, 63,510 and contributed towards doubling farmer’s income. Inclusion of seed production of HYVs in the cropping sequence is found essential in contributing towards doubling the farmer’s income as well as to minimize the gap of quality seed availability.

Keywords

Production use efficiency (PUE), land use efficiency (LUE) HYV Seeds, RGEY, Net Return, Doubling farmers’ income

Conclusion

Agriculture provides livelihood to more than half of India’s population, most of who grow rice as their main crop. The rice production has been increasing but the profit margin needs to be increased further. With the huge potential that the rice market has, seed production can be a source to increasing the income of farmers. From the present study it may be concluded that inclusion of seed production of high yielding varieties (HYVs) in the cropping sequence not only increases the production, productivity of crops but also helps in increasing the farmers income as the higher returns from the seed production leads to higher profit margins and thus can be considered as a source to doubling farmers income.

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Sanjib Ranjan Borah, Pompi Dutta, Sameeron Bhattacharjya, Milan Jyoti Konwar, Mayuri Baruah, Arunima Bharali, Rituraj Saikia, Jyoti Lekha Borah and Sanjay Kr Chetia (2023). Inclusion of Seed Production in Rice Based Cropping Sequence as a Means for Doubling Farmers’ Income. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(1): 237-242.