Comparative socio-economic analysis of soybean variety MAUS-71 VIS-À-VIS JS-335 of production in Beed district

Abstract

Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merill) is a leguminous crop and belongs to family leguminoceae. It is originated in Chaina and it is a major oilseed crop in the world. Soybean is known as the “golden bean”, “miracle crop” etc, because of its several uses. It is an excellent source of protein and oil. In India the area under soybean was 106.94 lakh hectares and production were 126.77 lack metric tonnes. In Maharashtra, soybean occupied an area 38.70 lakh ha area with production 48 lakh metric tonnes. The area under soybean in Beed district is 76.20 thousand hectars with the total production of 119.45 thousand metric tonnes and area under soybean in Ambajogai tahsil is 34.60 thousand hectars with total production of 61.80 thousand metric tonns in 2012-13. Multistage sampling design was adopted in selection of district, tehsil, villages and soybean growers. Soybean growers were stratified into two groups like MAUS-71 (48) and JS-335 (48). It was observed that 1.65 score of MAUS-71 grower was higher main occupational agriculture with compared to JS-335 soybean grower, about 1.41 score of JS-335 grower had main occupation agriculture. Regarding total land holding of MAUS-71 growers were 2.27 hectare have 0.69 hectare area under soybean and total land holding of JS-335 soybean growers were 2.69 hectare have 0.84 hectare area under soybean. On an average, capital investment on commonly used asset was higher Rs. 355375.50 on MAUS-71 soybean farm with compared to Rs. 266777.50 on JS-335 soybean farm, investment on commonly used asset was highest in MAUS-71 as compared to JS-335 soybean growers. Cropping patterns of MAUS-71 and JS-335 soybean growers the results revealed that gross cropped area was 4.60 hectares on JS-335 soybean farm followed by that of 4.15 hectares on MAUS-71 soybean farm. In kharif season the proportionate area under soybean was highest as 18.26 per cent on JS-335 and 16.63 per cent on MAUS-71 soybean farm. The net sown area on JS-335 soybean farm 55.87 per cent and MAUS-71 soybean farm 54.22 per cent, regarding double cropped area on MAUS-71 soybean farm was 45.78 per cent and JS-335 soybean farm was 44.13 per cent. In regard to cropping intensity it was observed that the highest cropping intensity was 184.44 per cent in MAUS-71 soybean farm followed by 178.99 per cent in JS-335 farm.