The Bt (Bacillus Thuringiensis) cotton seed production focussed on the socio-economic characteristics of contract farmers, cost and return, efficiency of resource use and problems faced by the farmers in Bt cotton seed production under different companies. The total cost of Bt cotton seed production varied from one company contract farmers to other company contract farmers. The Cobb-Douglas production function revealed that the farmers who have contracted with different seed companies, the use of seed was found to be optimum across all company contract farmers. Whereas, fertilizer resource...

Transplanting is a improved technology which is adopted in the production of redgram crop, which is performing better than dibbled and line sown methods. By adopting this method farmers of Gulberga and Bidar districts of Karnataka are earning more profit. The variety used for transplanting is BSMR-736 which is a long duration variety and requires irrigation facility, so agricultural scientists are working in this way to have short duration varieties for transplanting method. In this book we try to compare the cost and returns, resource use efficiency of different methods of redgram...