Rout et. al.,
Table 11 : Percentage distribution of capital expenditure in different size
groups of sample farms
Agril.
Blocks
Size
Land
Implements and
Non-agril.
groups
improvement
Livestock
Total
machineries
Assets
I
47.72
38.71
7.24
6.33
100.00
II
49.96
35.12
8.14
6.79
100.00
III
51.88
31.81
8.74
7.57
100.00
IV
52.57
30.55
9.49
7.39
100.00
Pooled
50.44
34.22
8.33
7.01
100.00
I
47.66
39.55
7.15
5.65
100.00
II
50.80
35.00
7.80
6.41
100.00
III
51.47
32.75
8.74
7.04
100.00
IV
52.13
31.24
9.01
7.62
100.00
Pooled
50.07
35.61
7.91
6.41
100.00
Among various items included in capital expenditure, in region-I land improvement
emerged as one of the important items, which took the lion’s share (50.44 per cent)
followed by expenditure on livestock (34.22 per cent).Among the remaining items
purchase of implements and machineries was relatively a more important item of
capital expenditure. The proportion of capital expenditure on non-agricultural assets
was found to be very small (7.01 per cent). A similar trend is observed in region-II
in respect of distribution of items of capital expenditure.
Current Farm Expenditure
The current farm expenditure comprises the non-cash and cash expenditures.
The non-cash component constitutes items like, family labour wages, owned bullock
labour, value of home grown seeds and manure’s etc. The cash component constitutes
the amount of money spent by the farmer for the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, plant
protection materials, irrigation charges, livestock maintenance, machineries and hiring
of human and bullock labour required in the farm. In view of this, it is essential to
study the distribution of non-cash expenditure in various size groups of farms.
Non-Cash Expenditure
The distribution of non-cash expenditure among different size groups of farms
on per farm, per hectare and percentage basis are given in Tables 12, 13 and 14
respectively.
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