Vol. 12, Special Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
HS Lalduhsangi, Hulas Pathak and VK Choudhary

Abstract:
Ginger is an important crop for farmers across the state of Mizoram. This paper presents different cost and profit incurred on producing ginger. Multi-stage random sampling was used to select the respondents. The primary data were collected for Agricultural year 2021-22 through well designed and pretested schedule of 100 farmers. The standard methods and cost concepts are were used in calculating the cost of cultivation and farm profits. The study reveals that ginger cultivation has B-C ratio of 1.7. It is also observed that the cost of hiring labour was the highest among the various cost in ginger cultivation accounting for 35.23% of the total cost followed by seed cost which accounted 29.83% of total cost.