ADOPTION AND PROFITABILITY OF MODERN BORO RICE CULTIVATION IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF JAMALPUR DISTRICT

Abstract

The population of Bangladesh is 168 million with a growing rate of 1.37 percent per annum and 76.61 percent of the population live in the rural areas and its population density is 1093 per sq. kilometres (BBS, 2019). It is Asia‘s 5th and world‘s 7lh most populous country. The per capita income is about S 1903 and its people have a life expectancy of 72 years (BBS, 2019).The present study was intended to measure the adoption and profitability of modern boro rice cultivation in some selected area of Jamalpur district in Bangladesh. Jamalpur district was selected for the study to calculate the profitability of Boro rice cultivation. The study was confined to randomly selected 60 Boro rice farmers. It revealed that Boro rice production is profitable to the farmers. The productivity of boro rice at farm level was 5951 kg/ha .Boro rice farmers received Tk.142825 as gross return per hectare and total cost was tk. 81954 per hectare. So the Benefit cost ratio (BCR) on cash cost basis is 1.74. Here variable cost is Tk.59004 per hectare. Functional analysis showed that cost of human labor, seed, and fertilizer had positive significant contribution to gross return of Boro rice cultivation. So there is a positive effect of key factors in the production process of year round boro rice cultivation. This study also identified some of the problems and constraints associated with modern boro rice farming. Farmer faces several types of problem from production period to harvesting period. Heavy rainfall, extreme temperature, lack of capital, high input price, shortage of quality seed, shortage of labor in pick period ,high wage rate and lack of capital were some acute problem that the farmer faces most.