Vegetable farming is becoming increasingly popular and profitable in Jharkhand, especially among farmers who have access to small-scale irrigation systems. During the kharif season, however, a number of vegetables such as tomato, cauliflower, cabbage, capsicum, and others are cultivated in totally rainfed conditions. To meet the minimal requirement of the entire population of Jharkhand, the state of Jharkhand requires 16.25 lakh tonnes of vegetables every year. Currently, the state produces 23.31 lakh tonnes of vegetables on 1.44 million hectares, with a surplus of 7.06 lakh tonnes.
Commercial, green revolution (GR), and complex, diversified, and risk-prone (CDR) i.e. small production systems are the three main types of agricultural production systems in the state. Commercial production systems are defined by a fully controlled environment, fertile and irrigated land, automated farming with a focus on cash crops, high input technology, fully employed labour, and a return-oriented production strategy. Farmers with a lot of resources handle these farm production systems. Irrigated/protective irrigation facilities, combination of good fertile or less fertile land, employment of family labour in combination with paid labour, and combination of monetary profits and food crops are all characteristics of the green revolution or well-endowed production systems.
Small production systems, also known as CDRs, are characterised by interdependency of on- and off-farm activities, complete reliance on family labour, multipurpose use of each farm enterprise's product and by-product, production strategy confined to household food security, wide variation in soil fertility due to slope and shed, and no control over productivity, as well as stability and sustainability.
About 90% of the cultivated area in Jharkhand is under CDR production systems, with the remaining 8% under well-endowed production systems and 2% under commercial production systems. A significant number of farmers have begun to cultivate vegetables with more contemporary inputs in generally well-equipped production systems.
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Ranjay Kumar Singh
Senior Scientist and Head, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Chatra / Birsa Agricultural University, Kanke Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.
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