PROFITABILITY AND FACTOR ANALYSIS OF POTATO CULTIVATION IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF MUNSHIGANJ DISTRICT IN BANGLADESH

Abstract

The present study was designed to assess the Profitability and Factor Analysis of Potato Cultivation in Some Selected Areas of Munshiganj District in Bangladesh. Farmers were randomly selected for data collection purpose. The selected upazilas were Munshiganj Sadar and Tangibari under Munshiganj district. Descriptive statistics and Cobb-Douglas production function were used to achieve the objective of the study. The major findings of the study revealed that the potato production was profitable for the year of 2021. Per hectare total cost of potato was Tk. 2, 64, 873 and the gross return was Tk. 2, 67, 690. Per hectare net return for potato production was Tk. 2, 817. Gross margin was Tk. 42, 619. Return per taka of potato production was 1.01 and discounted BCR was 1.29. The results of the CobbDouglas production function indicated that the gross return of the potato production were

highly influenced by the human labor, seed, irrigation, manure, fertilizer, insecticide etc.

𝑅 2 was 0.447, adjusted 𝑅 2 0.401, returns to scale was 0.87 and F-value 9.822. The problems faced by potato farmers were shortage of financial capital, high price of input, low price of output, lack of quality seed, inadequate extension services etc. It also showed that imbalanced investment and poor management of potato farming may lead to less profit. So efficient policy for pricing, effective production management, lower input price were required for the highest net return of the potato cultivation. For these Bangladesh government should play vital role for the effective management of potato.