Abstract:
The present study was basically designed to assess the “Profitability Analysis of Potato
Cultivation: A Study at Debiganj Thana under Panchagarh District”. Farmers were
randomly selected for data collection purpose. The selected villages were Debganj Sadar,
Pamoli, Kaligonj ,Vaulagonj, Dabiduba and Sonahar under Debiganj thana in Panchagarh
district. Descriptive statistics and Cobb- Douglas production function were employed to
achieve the objective of the study. The major findings of the study revealed that the
potato production was profitable. Per hectare total cost of potato was 193779.34 TK and
the gross return was 299500.00 TK. Per hectare net return for potato production is
105720.66 TK. The results of the Cobb- Douglas production function indicated that the
gross return of the potato production were highly influenced by the human labour,
seedlings, irrigation, manure, fertilizer, insecticide etc. The present study shows that there
were some constrains in the production of potato. These problems were shortage of
financial capital, high price of input, low price of output, lack of quality seed, inadequate
extension services etc. It showed that inefficient management of potato cultivation may
turn into loss. So the effective management of potato, enough cold storage facility was
required for the highest net return of the potato cultivation. For these Bangladesh
government should have play vital role for the effective management of potato. At the
end of the study some policy and recommendation of the potato production are given for
the view of effective management purpose.
Description:
Submitted to the Department of Development & Poverty Studies
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree
of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY STUDIES
