ABSTRACT

Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, one of the leading producers of temperate fruits in India, is in the process of adopting high-density apple cultivation. Establishment of high-density apple orchard involves a very high cost which gets compensated by higher productivity during its productive life. Considering the profitability of cultivating high-density apple a need was felt to examine its quality and yield potential that could guide the Government to formulate a roadmap for its dissemination in its domain area. High-density apple (variety-Super Chief Sandidge) was recently introduced from Italy. It is reported to be very productive and quality wise, retains a high score of consumer acceptability, accordingly efforts are being made to extend its adoption in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. To formulate a policy for its adoption, ex-ante evaluation was carried out by employing economic surplus model on the experimental data collected from the technical expert group of scientists involved in its cultivation, assessment, evaluation and dissemination. The results reveal that productivity of apple has increased by 53.6 mt/ha and labor employment has increased by 676 man days/ha due to the adoption of high-density apple technology. The results further revealed that with an expected expansion of high-density apple orchards over 30% of the target area NPV, IRR and BC ratio would amount to 16.43 Billion US $, 62% and 98.60.

摘要

查mu与克什米尔邦的联盟领土，印度温带水果的主要生产国之一，正在采用高密度苹果种植。高密度苹果园的建立涉及很高的成本，而在其生产寿命中却因更高的生产率而得到补偿。考虑到种植高密度苹果的盈利能力，因此有必要检查其质量和产量潜力，以指导政府制定在其领域内传播苹果的路线图。高密度苹果（品种-超级首席桑迪奇））是最近从意大利引进的。据报道，它生产效率高，质量上乘，在消费者中的接受度很高，因此正在努力扩大其在查mu和克什米尔联合领土的采用。为了制定一项采用该政策的政策，通过对从参与其种植，评估，评估和传播的科学家技术专家组收集的实验数据采用经济盈余模型，进行事前评估。结果表明，由于采用了高密度苹果技术，苹果的生产率提高了53.6公吨/公顷，劳动就业增加了676人日/公顷。结果进一步表明，如果高密度苹果园的目标面积扩大到目标面积NPV的30％以上，IRR和BC的比例将达到16。