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STUDY ON RELATIVE PROFITABILITY OF BRRI Dhan33 OVER BR11 FOR MONGA MITIGATION IN GREATER RANGPUR REGION (Pages : 65 - 70)

The present study was conducted in Rangpur, Nilphamari, Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts under greater rangpur region during 2007 after harvesting BRRI dhan33 to determine and compare the relative profitability BRRI dhan33 rice variety over farmers’ existing cultivated variety BR11. A total of 78 out of 150 farmers were purposively selected. Monga is used to describe the famine like situation at northern part of Bangladesh in which the poor suffered acute deprivation. BRRI dhan33 is an early maturing short duration rice variety which has potentiality to mitigate monga by generating employment opportunities during peak monga period. Findings indicate that all the farmers of all 4 locations together, mean per hectare yield of BRRI dhan33 (3.58 tons) was found significantly lower than BR11 (4.42 tons). Overall per hectare profit of BRRI dhan33 and BR11 were found Tk. 15186 and Tk. 15232 respectively. The equivalent BCRs are 1.74 and 1.81. So, both yield and profit per hectare were lower in case of BRRI dhan33 compared to BR11. But this loss will be compensated by prevailing higher price of paddy (as well as rice straw) during October- November i.e. peak monga period and higher yield and profit expected to be obtained from following early planted potato crop. Large and medium farmers got more profit than the small farmers in cultivating BRRI dhan33. On an average 123 labor days were required per hectare for cultivating BRRI dhan33 of which 64 labor days (i.e. 52.03%) from family sources and 59 (i.e. 47.96 %) from hired sources. On the other hand, for cultivating BR11 variety, on average 137 labor days were required of which 68 labor days (i.e. 49.63%) came from family sources and 69 (i.e. 50.36%) from hired sources. In case of BRRI dhan33 cultivation 123 labor days utilized per hectare, from which 64 and 59 persons found employments for each hectare of land cultivated, people who otherwise would have remain unemployed. This means that slightly higher number labor daysDownload