Economic Study of Chickpea Cultivation in Auraiya District Uttar Pradesh, India

Chickpea one of the important crops in U.P., as well as, in India. World-wide India ranks 1stin production of gram. In India, the total food production in 2013-14 was about 257.4 million tones out of these only 19.3 million tones was contributed by pulses. The production of cereals increase by 460 per cent since 1950-51 to give the year but the production of pulses in the country has increased only 178 per cent. The prices have increased considerably and the consumer is hard hit to buy his pulse requirements. Thus the availability of pulse per capita per day has proportionately decline from 71g (1955) to 36.9g (1998) against the minimum requirement of 70g per capita per day. District Auraiya was purposively selected and the block Auraiya having highest acreage under gram was selected purposively for the study. List of the villages from selected block were prepared along with acreage under Chickpea cultivation and 5 villages were selected randomly for study. In all 100 number of farmers were selected proportionally from each category of farmers and classified into three categories i.e. marginal (below 1 ha), small (1-2 ha), medium (2-4 ha & above).