Abstract:
Brahmanbaria and Kishoregonj districts have been selected purposively as study area.
The study was confined to only summer tomato and cauliflower. Simple random
sampling technique has been used for collecting cross sectional data and information
from a total of 100 farmers (summer tomato-50 and off-season cauliflower-50). All the
collected data were summarized and scrutinized carefully to eliminate all possible
errors. Data were presented mostly in the tabular form. Descriptive statistics like
average, percentage etc. were followed to analyze the data to achieve the objectives of
the study. Functional analysis was also adopted in a small scale to arrive at expected
findings. A Cobb-Douglas production function was used to estimate the factors
affecting the yield of vegetables. Cost items were identified as land preparation,
human labour, seed, urea, TSP, MoP, manure, irrigation, insecticide, interest on
operating capital and land use cost. All these cost were accounted for one production
period of selected vegetables. Per hectare gross return of summer tomato and
cauliflower were calculated at Tk. 1099395.00 and Tk. 615360.00, respectively. Net
returns of summer tomato and cauliflower were calculated at Tk. 994353.40 and Tk.
455278.13 per hectare, respectively. Benefit Cost Ratios (BCRs) were found to be
10.47 and 3.84 for summer tomato and cauliflower, respectively. The net returns of
summer tomato and cauliflower were found to be positive and the BCRs were greater
than one, which showed that the cultivation of summer tomato and cauliflower were
profitable. Production function analysis suggested that land preparation cost, human
labour cost, seed, urea and TSP had a positive and significant effect on the yield of
summer tomato and cauliflower. MoP and irrigation cost had insignificant effect on the
yield of both crops and irrigation cost had a positive and significant effect on the yield
of cauliflower. Cost of insecticides had negative but significant effect on the yield of
summer tomato, and had a positive and significant effect on the yield of cauliflower.
The Adjusted R
2
s were found to be 0.772752, and 0.853164 for summer tomato and
cauliflower, respectively. The F-values of the estimated production functions of
summer tomato and cauliflower were found to be significant at one percent level
which implies good fit of the models.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agricultural
Economics, Faculty of Agribusiness Management
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
