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An Economic Analysis of Gladiolus growing in Himachal Pradesh

IR@IHBT: CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur

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Title An Economic Analysis of Gladiolus growing in Himachal Pradesh
 
Creator Singh, S
Singh , M K
Kumar, Sanjay
 
Subject Information and Science Management
 
Description Gladiolus is the most important floriculture crop in Himachal Pradesh. Gladiolus flowers are in demand for their elegant attractive spikes of different hues and good keeping quality. To become popular floriculture crop, the production of gladiolus should be economically viable especially in long run. The paper aims to analyse the economic viability of gladiolus production in Himachal Pradesh. Relevant data were collected through personal interview from purpose random selected sample of 20 farmers. The budgeting technique like Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return and Benefit Cost Ratio were applied to assess the economic viability of gladiolus production. The results show that production of gladiolus is economically viable in Himachal Pradesh.
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ihbt.csircentral.net/798/1/Microsoft_Word_%2D_Paper_glad_in_HP.pdf
Singh, S and Singh , M K and Kumar, Sanjay (2011) An Economic Analysis of Gladiolus growing in Himachal Pradesh. International Journal of Tropical Agriculture , 25. pp. 1-2.
 
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