Impact of Farm Technology on Rice Production in Madurai District, Tamilnadu

The crucial importance of green revolution is to achieving higher yield of productivity and encouraging crops production in all over the places. The major objective of green revolution was to increase the agricultural production to meet out the ever growing demand for food grains due to never ending process of population expansion. It is grown in almost all the states of India but it is mostly concentrated in the river valleys, deltas, and low lying coastal area of North Eastern and Southern India. The rice producing states are Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Mysore, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir which together contribute over 95 per cent of the country’s rice production. Hence, the present study makes an attempt to analyse the impact of rice production in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu. By and large, the study concluded that small farmers are economically more efficient than large farmers irrespective of varieties of rice cultivation in the study area. This is indicated that apart from efficient allocation of inputs, direct supervision and farm management are crucial determinants of economic efficiency.