Vol. 6, Issue 11 (2017)

Author(s):
Sunil Narbaria, MA Khan, ML Sharma and Subodh Pradhan

Abstract:
The present study was carried out during 2015-16 in the periphery of Northern Hills Agro-climatic zone of Chhattisgarh state. This study aims to assess the information on popular farming systems and their profitability. This study was conducted randomly selected 20 villages identified from all the 10 blocks of all the five districts in this zone. The sample comprised of 300 farm families. The data was collected through personal interview using interview schedule. The collected data were analyzed with the help of suitable statistical methods. The finding shows that Rice-potato+vegetable-fellow and rice-maize-fellow were the most popular cropping systems of irrigated area. Rice-fellow-fellow was mostly adopted under rainfed situation. The profitability of rice-potato+vegetable-fellow cropping system was highest followed by sugarcane-fellow cropping system from irrigated area. Rice-mung/urid-fellow cropping system provides highest profitability from rainfed situation.