Claim · model-written summary
The total cost of cultivation of field crops was significantly higher in menace-prone areas than in non-menace-prone areas.
- Taxon
- field cropse1
- Treatment
- menace prone arease1
- Outcome
- total cost of cultivatione1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- non-menace prone arease1
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Verbatim
e1“The total cost of cultivation of field crops in menace prone areas and overall situation (menace prone + non menace prone) was significantly higher compared to the non-menace prone areas”
Title
Economic assessment of crop damages by animal menace in mid hill regions of Himachal Pradesh
RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR; ADITI WALIA; KANIKA MEHTA; et al. The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 2022. doi:10.56093/ijans.v92i4.124173
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Animal menace reduced the net cropped area by 12.66% compared with the period before menace.
- Intervention effect Animal menace reduced the total cropped area by 17.35% compared with the period before menace.
- Observation 33.03% of the total cropped area was prone to animal menace.
- Observation 54.69% of the menace-prone area was affected by wild animals.
- Observation 45.31% of the menace-prone area was affected by stray animals.
- Observation The extent of animal menace varied across the crops.
- Observation Maize had 45.76% of its area under prone to animal menace.
- Observation Wheat had 43.07% of its area prone to animal menace.
- Observation Paddy had 31.25% of its area prone to animal menace.
- Association The menace-prone area was relatively lower in vegetable crops than in cereals.
- Intervention effect Animal menace decreased the productivity levels of cereal crops by about 16 to 24%.
- Observation The total economic loss from animal menace in field crops was estimated at 25358 per farm.
- Observation Wheat had the highest share (32.48%) of the economic loss.
- Observation Paddy had a 13.27% share of the economic loss.
- Observation Maize had a 12.22% share of the economic loss.
- Association The share of loss in production (53.63%) was slightly higher than the increase in total cost of cultivation.