Making Small farms Economically Viable Through Integrated Farming In Sugarcane ,SBI

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MAKING SMALL FARMS ECONOMICALLY VIABLE THROUGH INTEGRATED FARMING IN SUGARCANE BASED PRODUCTIONSYSTEM

(A CASE STUDY)

p a ugarcane based production system is one of the important production systems operating in the .

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agro-eco system. Sugarcanebased production system comprises of sugarcane, coconut and hnana as the main component crops and brinial, tomato and chillies as minor component crops. cash crop, sugarcane and banana are highly vulnerable to price fluduotion in the an annual crop, it yields income once in a year. The investment on these crops for a year without yielding any fruits. To compensate these losses the farmers are growing wetables to get weekly income. The money obtained from these crops and from dairy enterprises ire ploughadin the investmentsof cash crops. The intercrops and fodder cropssuch as fodder maize, and fodder cowpea are grown for the purposeof feeding the cattle. mpiw

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any farm, diversified enterprises are operating in an integrated manner. The diversification i enterprise becomes input for other enterprise T 6krpriies are balanced in such a way to yield a higher annuol turnover for the whale farm

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&xperiences indicated that a technology can be successfully introducedonly if it fits in the integrated

dy wbconducted. In fhis case study, stepswere t a b n to,know the economic v i ~ ty of

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The area of the farm is 5.89 acres (2.536 hectares). In this, he has a farm house which occupies 3 cents, a cattle shed in 2 cents and a open well cum bore well in 10 cents. The depth of the well is 200 feet giving 2 inch water for 4 hours every day. The water is sufficient to irrigate 0.5 acre per day. It will take 10daysto irrigate the entire farm.

isinterestingto notethat he is not having angbig farm implementssuchas tractor, trailer, powe' and bullocks. He has very minor farm implements such as crowbar, spade, hand hoe a

- bamboo baskets. For all the farm operations he is engaging hired implements, thereby he avo1 heavy investmentson farm machinery and avoids maintenance and operatingcosts also. , . : . , . ,, , j , ' I ' , /

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major crops grown by him are sugarcane, coconut and banana. Vegetables like chilli, brinjal ,.

and tomato are arown as other moior relational oops after banana. The sorghum crop is arown a s

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hi;has teak kkmd:plan6ti~mion.~r~& til~b ~$h~~~i~~rr'&~rrh@ls~hll . :' &tgt

above mentionedtrees require no inputs rother&eyyielld additiopuli~mnfefitfiekariwr;.

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The economiaof different enterprises are calcula crops grownin hefarm to give o dear picture abautthe annual turnover

Sugarcane is grown in 1.5 acres. The variety under cultivation is Co 86032. Previously he wr growing the variety Co 62175. After the operation of IVLP, he has completely removed the o variety and started cultivatingCo 86032 mainly for high iaggery yield and getting high prices due. good jaggery tolour. The following is the details of receipts and expenditure from sugarcane for I , acres (Table 1).

'able 1. ~enditurein sugarcane (plantIratoon crop )

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for 1.5 acres, cosi Rs.16001 bag

use as cattle feed @ Rs.10/100 shoots Total income and expenditure for

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0.50 acre (600 trees) 0.50 acre (600 trees) 0.25 acre (200 trees) 1.25 acres (800 trees)

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25 bamboo clumps are available. Each clump 25 bamboo. Each bamboo costs Rs.101- Cost of 6 2

Tamarind Three tamarind trees are ovailable in the farm.

Each tree gives 500 kg of tamarind per year. Each kg tamarind cost Rs.10

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~Kawkl' Three trees are available. Each tree fetches Rs. 10001year. Cost of kapok far3 trees.

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Dairy enterprise Dairy enterprise comprises of 5 milk yielding jeny cows and two calves. Five jersy yield 50 litresof milkldoy. The details of the income and expenditureare given in Table 7.

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I~~k'mm and expenditure of dairy enterprise rue of 50 litres of milk per day

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reed, grounanur ke, cotton seed and paddy bran @ .1000/ animal/yeor for 7 animals ost of mineral mixture, gjucose drip a d calcium drip @. ~ s ~ ~ ~ / a n i ~ n a l / ~ ~ r f ~ CQKeS,

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Cost of fodder 4olam @ Rs.2/kg for 35 days @ 5kg/-animal

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Permanent labour Besides engaging hired labour for carrying out the farm operations, such as land preparation, forming ridges and furrows, guiding irrigation, weeding and harvesting, he has three permanent laborourers in his farm to carry out other activities such as feeding the cattle, harvesting grass and fodder cholam for cattle, milking the cow, etc. The annual expenditure involved forthis labourers are given in Table 8. '

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turn ~nvdvedin engaging pennanant labourers in the farm Income (b)

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Investments made >%V.;L '7/x7: To renovate the farm structures such as construction of farm house, cattle shed, makina" bore well point, purchase of pumpsets, jersy cows, construction of shed for making iaggery, fencing the farm and planting teakwood trees, he had invested Rs.4.5 lakhs. Interest on these investments have to be met under expenditure and the maintenance cost of the building, fencing and bore wells are also included in the expenditure (Table 9).

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Table 1C. Total income and expenditure of the entire farm

Crop enterprise Sugarcane plantcm fiugarcane ratoon crop Banana Brinjol andTo

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k ~ ! h % b & c r m ~ was honoured during Kiran Divas organized at Sugarcane - f Briedinalish"~w!e; Coimbatore on 1P December,2002 to celebrate the birth centenary of late Chowdhary Charan Singh Ji, Former Prime Minister of India for achieving higher yield in , < . r sugarcane (185.0 t./ ha).

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Future planning , In:futum he wanfs to introduce two more enterpri~s I

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