Resource-use efficiency of composite fish culture in sivasagar District of Assam
International Journal of Development Research
Resource-use efficiency of composite fish culture in sivasagar District of Assam
Received 20th October, 2020; Received in revised form 27th November, 2020; Accepted 29th December, 2020; Published online 30th January, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Pratibha Mohan and Dr. Durga Charan Kalita. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The present study attempts to assess the resource-use efficiency in Composite Fish Culture in Sivasagar District of Assam. The study was based on primary data collectedthrough personal interview method of sampling by interviewing 150 samples borrowers and 150 non-borrowers from three size groups (based on pond size)being selected through cumulative root frequency rule. The results showed that the among borrowers,the result of economic or allocative efficiency (r) of inputs in group I and group II such as land (0.0451) and (0.109), fingerlings (0.089) human labour (0.025) and (0.015), machinery (0.102) and (0.011) and marketing (0.024) and (0.025) has been found over-utilized, technically lesser than 1 unit (<1). But in group size I the used of fertilizer (1.025) has been found under-utilized and in group II, fingerlings (-0.258) and fertilizer (-0.038) has been found negative MPV value which inducates inefficient utilization of resource. Similarly among non-borrowers inputs such as land (0.0125), fertilizer (0.025), human labour (0.005) and marketing (0.015) in group I has been found over-utilized, technically lesser than 1 unit (<1). Fingerlings (-0.051) and machinery (-0.025) has been found negative MPV /MFC which showed inefficient utilization of resource.The over-all return to scale was 1.1208 among borrowers and 0.6073 among non-borrowers, which showed an increasing return to scale for but borrowers were found higher return to scale than non-borrowers.