Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
PS Kale, DB Chatse, AB Ingle and DS Perke

Abstract:
The study deals with the economic analysis and efficiency of farms having different levels of resource base. Land is a square resource and it must be used intensively in farming business. Social economic characteristics are influencing the farming business. In Socio economic characteristics studies different aspects like family size, age, occupational levels, types of soil and educational levels of large farmers. For analysis of land use patterns and socioeconomic characteristics of large farms multistage sampling design was adopted. Yavatmal district was selected for study because it has a large farm area. From Yavatmal district two tehsils were selected from each tehsils five villages were selected from each village 10 farmers were selected, with a total sample size of 60. It was observed that land holding of large farmers was found to be 8.51 hectares.