Authors : Raskar M.B. and Salunkhe P.Y.
Page Nos : 35-39
Description :
Irrigation is a backbone of agricultural development, particularly in
drought prone areas, where
it is impossible to crops without irrigation. Irrigation facility is very significant in connection to assured
ginger production. Now days for getting more yield most of the experimental ginger growers use the
different irrigatio
n methods in ginger cultivation. Even though, to study the performance level of different
irrigation methods is very beneficial to ginger growers for calculating the best method for irrigate the
ginger crop.Present investigation, aims to analyse the perfor
mance level of ginger cost benefit ratio (CBR)
with special reference to irrigation technology in Satara and Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. The
entire analysis is based on empirical data collected through intensive fieldwork through questionnaires
and
schedule technique. Of 28 villages from 7 tahsils in Satara district and 12 villages from 6 tahsils in
Aurangabad district are selected for present investigation. The stratified random sampling (10%) method
has been adopted for the selection of villages.
84 growers from 28 villages in Satara district and 36
growers from 12 villages in Aurangabad district selected for present investigation. Here stratified
purposive sampling method used for selection of ginger growers for calculating the performance level o
f
ginger CBR with special reference to irrigation technology.If we can see at performance level of ginger CBR
in case of drip irrigation method i.e. 1:2.60 followed by the sprinkler and flood irrigation method i.e.
1:2.30 and 1:1.74 respectively. However,
only 53.33 percent area of ginger cultivation is under drip
irrigation. So there is a need to promote area under drip irrigation method rather than sprinkler and flood
irrigation in ginger cultivation. Therefore per hectare yield will be increased. It resu
lts benefit of ginger
growers will increase. Hence remaining ginger growers of study region should implement modern
irrigation technology i.e. drip irrigation for higher CBR performance level in ginger cultivation.
