Economic Analysis Of Rice Crop Cultivation In In District Dera Ismail Khan

Abstract

An investigation on the economics of rice crop farming in Dera Ismail Khan district (usually referred to as D.I. Khan) was carried out in 2023 at the Institute of Social Sciences, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Purposive sampling was used to choose three tehsils: D.I.Khan, Parova, and[1] Paharpur. Three villages and five varieties i.e IRRI-06, IRRI-09, KSK-282, KSK-133, and PK-385 were chosen from each tehsil. Nine hundred farmers were chosen at random using a pre-tested questionnaire provided primary data for the study. Based on the proportionate allocation approach, the sample size was distributed across these nine communities. The marginal rate of replacements, log-linear Cobb-Douglas production function, and benefit cost ratios were determined for the purpose of data analysis. As a result, the KSK-133 variety is the most lucrative rice variety when compared to all other rice varieties. The benefit cost ratio for PK-385, IRRI-06, IRRI-09, KSK-282, KSK-133, and PK-385 was recorded as 2.10, 2.70, 2.81, 2.93, and 2.38, respectively. The results showed that the area, seed, nursery, fertilizer, labor, pesticides and harvesting / threshing had production elasticities of 0.256817, 0.6157, 0.21684, 0.08719, 0.14278, 0.0033717 and 0.6264 respectively. Growing returns to scale are found in the input-output connection. It should be suggested to the farmers to grow high producing cultivars such as KSK-133 and KSK-282.