ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF HYBRID AND CONVENTIONAL VARIETIES OF RICE: A CASE STUDY OF TEHSIL BHOWANA OF DISTRICT CHINIOT.

High yielding varieties were introduced to overcome the problem of food insecurity. Net returns of hybrid and conventional varieties of rice were analyzed in the present study. The sample size of 120 respondents from farming community of tehsil Bhowana was selected to get information. The gross returns per acre for hybrid, basmati and irri rice were calculated to be 77973.97, 55602.15 and 49077.23 rupees respectively. The total costs per acre for hybrid, basmati and irri rice were calculated to be 48506.34, 39391.87 and 37394.97 rupees respectively. The net returns per acre for hybrid, basmati and irri rice were 29467.63, 16210.28 and 11682.26 rupees respectively. The average value of rice varietal diversity index for small, medium and large farmers was estimated to be 0.2172, 0.3943 and 0.5589 respectively. Government and policy maker should start some programs for training of farmers, in selected areas. The model plots should be introduced and on those plots state of art technologies and skills should be employed practically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]