SOCIO ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF GINGER CULTIVATION IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF NILPHAMARI DISTRICT OF BANGLADESH

Abstract

The study was aimed to assess the cost, return, and profitability of ginger farming in specific districts of Bangladesh. It has potential to be marketed both domestically and internationally. Bangladesh's Nilphamari district makes a major contribution to the nation's overall production of ginger. In this region, the climate and land composition are suitable for ginger growth. The aim of this study is to explore the performance of ginger cultivating in this district and to identify the challenges and prospects of ginger cultivation .This research made use of primary data. The study indicates that the gross margin, net return, and return per hectare were found to be Tk.738038.76, Tk.568259.09, and Tk.1053910.6 respectively. Necessary descriptive and statistical analyses are done to achieve the objectives. The Cobb-Douglas production function was used to assess the impacts of various inputs on ginger cultivation, and the undiscounted benefit-cost ratio for ginger cultivation was 2.17 in this study. The result found that ginger cultivation was profitable. According to the Cobb-Douglas production function, ginger production has a decreasing return to scale. The model's co-efficient of multiple determination R was 0.40 for ginger cultivation, indicating that the explanatory variables included in the model explained approximately 40% of the variation in gross return .Farmers in the research region stated that challenges such as the occurrence of root rot disease, high seed prices, insect infestation, and so on are major problems for their production and require the attention of the appropriate authority to solve.