Trends in Agricultural Production and Productivity in Bangalore Rural District

Abstract

The study covered four talukas of Bangalore Rural District. They are Dodballapura Devanahalli, Hosakote Nelamangala.  The entire study comprised of variables such as size of farm, number of farmers involved in farming, social factors, agricultural experience, irrigation facilities available agricultural equipment used for cultivation, showing annual income earned, annual production level, their awareness about new technology influencing agriculture, benefits of adopting new techniques to increase agriculture productivity and the crops grown. What is the government’s role in providing support systems for farmers to harness new technology? The crops that were mainly cultivated are food crops, horticulture crops, oil seeds, cereals, sericulture and pulses. Thus, major crops cultivated were finger millets, maize paddy, red gram, horse gram, field bean, cowpea, Bengal gram, fruits and vegetables grown as horticultural crops.  Two hundred farms were sampled from the four talukas. The research gap has shown that farm size has little to do with the variation of yield of crop or productivity because factors such as size of the farm household tenancy and size of operational holdings have positive impact on the productivity though it does show larger farm sizes can show higher rate of yields per hectare of productivity results when given the same agricultural inputs. The inverse size productivity issue is not valid here and tenancy and household size, usage of latest techniques of production, choice of crops suited for cultivation, soil texture, multiple cropping patterns, water resources, electricity all impact the productivity of farms. Research methodology consisted of primary and secondary data. The findings showed that there was limited availability of irrigation facilities for farmers, the farmers also use higher doses of fertilizers and also shown higher inclination to adopt modern practices. such as modern tractors for ploughing. Shortage of extension services such as timely availability of credit facilities at low rate of interest and shortage of borewells has been established by the field study.