Economics of Cheery Production in Himachal Pradesh: A Study of Different Farm Size

Background: Human labour, bullock power, mechanical water for irrigation, seeds, manures and fertilizers, insecticides pesticides cultivation practices, etc. are the major inputs in farm production costly scarce therefore requires proper allocation utilization. Cheery could be a better alternative to apple it is necessary study resource use efficiency of different size classes by calculating elasticity coefficient (labour man-days, Land, Manures Seeds others) with regards output determining economics scales cheery area. Methods: The was conducted during Year 2018-2019 at Jubbal kotkhai block district Shimla Himachal Pradesh from where input-output data cherry collected sample 200 farmers holdings analyzed Cobb-Douglas function. Result: We have found that marginal farms human labour predominant factor followed fertilizers seeds whereas small medium land dominating has key role play enhance Cherry production.