Abstract:
The study was planned to measure the financial profitability and technical efficiency of
chili cultivators in selected Jaintapur, Gowainghat and Kanaighat upazila of Sylhet
district. From 70 farmers, primary data has been gathered randomly during November
to December. Both tabular and functional analyses were offered in this study. The study
proved that chili cultivation is profitable. The total cost of cultivation was Tk. 426736
per hectare. Gross returns were Tk. 785343.93 per hectare and net returns were Tk.
358607.93 per hectare. Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) was 1.84 which reveals that one taka
investment in chili cultivation generated Tk. 1.84. The Cobb-Douglas stochastic
frontier production function was used for this study to determine the technical
efficiency of chili growers. The coefficients of parameters like human labor, fertilizers,
and insecticides were positive where human labor and fertilizers are not significant but
insecticides are significant and indicated a positive effect on chili cultivation. Seed and
irrigation were negative and significant noted that negative effect on chili cultivation.
Technical inefficiency effects the model, experience, farm size, extension have negative
coefficients defining that this helps in deducting the technical inefficiency of chili
farmers. The study also identified some issues like an insect- pests and diseases, use of
fertilizer and pesticide, dearth of high yielding variety of seed mainly experienced by
the chili cultivators and proposed some recommendations to enhance the present
cultivation so that per hectare cultivation of chili would possibly be increased.
Description:
A Thesis
Submitted to the Department of Agricultural Economics
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka,
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
