Abstract:
Climatic condition is conducive to cultivate mustard in Bangladesh and there are ample
opportunity to improve the current situation of production, since now the demand of
oilseeds is high. But financial analysis of production of this crop remains unnoticed most
of the time. For assessment of the profitability a field level review was directed with 100
mustard cultivators, who were chosen purposively and interviewed with pretested
questionnaire from Nilphamari district during the period March to April in 2020.
Applying the Cobb-Douglas production model the results suggested that farmers earned
36347.08 Tk ha
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by producing 1414.23 kg ha
vi
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mustard with the Benefit Cost Ratio
(BCR) 1.62. Irrigation, machinery, seed, urea, TSP, ZnSO
4
and Cow dung had a
significant positive effect on the yield of mustard while human labour and MoP had
negative insignificant effect. Mustard cultivation is profitable in Bangladesh and has the
potentiality to minimize import cost of oilseeds. Mustard production can be increased
further by ensuring adequate supply of labor at peak period with reasonable wage rate,
incentive price of produce for farmers, sufficient drainage system after flood, collateral
free and easy access to credit, crop insurance to mustard growers.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of Agribusiness Management,
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.S.)
IN
DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY STUDIES
