Abstract

Maize is cultivated worldwide and having wider adaptability under varied agro climatic conditions. Boosting agricultural productivity has been an issue of paramount importance to enhance farmer’s income. Agricultural technology helps to shifts the production function up, enabling higher quantity and better quality of output and enhancing farmer income is explicit. Measuring the impact provide insights to refine technologies and in devising strategies for up scaling. Keeping this in view the current research has been undertaken with the objective to evaluate the costs and returns from cultivation of Maize under technology adopters and non-adopters category. Perambalur districts topped the list of districts ranked according to the total area under maize cultivation and hence selected for study. Partial budgeting is powerful technique used to estimate the direct economic benefit at farm-level by adoption of technologies. From the results of the study it was found that increment in the profit realized by maize growing marginal farmers being adopters was Rs 12,880 /ha and for small farmers it was Rs.13,850/ respectively. Providing education, skill training, creating awareness among the farmers regarding various improved cultivation techniques, encouraging and providing incentives to farmers to adopt technology helps farmers to improve their income. Hence it is apparent that the technology adoption is cost efficient and enhancing income of farmers.