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Table 4.5 Distribution of Machine Labour Costs

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Paddy cultivation in Kuttanadu thomascombi doc
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4.1.3 Other expenses

Table 4.5
Distribution of Machine Labour Costs
(Costs in Rs/Acre) Type of farmers Cost items Marginal Small Medium Large Average
Tractor/tiller
211.67 182.58 156.33 277.08 206.92 Threshing
300.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 Pumping
254.00 292.73 330.00 316.67 298.35 Total
765.67 775.31 786.33 893.75 805.27
4.1.3 Other expenses
In addition to the material and labour cost, paddy cultivation in the study area involves certain miscellaneous expenses such as land tax, cost of purchase of implements like baskets, repair charges of farming implements, expenses to provide refreshments to labourers, other incentives given to farm labourers etc. During the last puncha season sample farmers of the study area on an average had spent Rs as miscellaneous expenses. The per acre total cost of paddy cultivation in the study area during the last crop season is estimated as Rs. Out of it labour costs amounted to 72.8 percent and the cost of human labour alone came up to 59.2 percent. Another major cost item is the

material cost which amounted to nearly one- fourth of the total costs. Any sort of direct relationship between per acre costs and size of operational landholdings could not be detected. Cost of cultivation of paddy cropper acre is found to be the lowest for marginal farmers and highest for the small farmers. The difference between the costs of the above two categories of farmers comes only up to 7.14 percent. Consolidated statement of the various cost items for the marginal, small, medium and large farmers in the study area is shown in table 4.6.

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