Economic analysis of early and late maturing rapeseed and mustard genotypes

Abstract

Rapeseed and mustard dominate the oilseed cultivation in Bangladesh. Exploration of both long duration and short duration rapeseed and mustard can reduce the gap between demand and production of oilseed. The aim of this study was to identify the difference in economic return between late maturing and early maturing rapeseed and mustard genotypes in terms of benefit-cost ratio. Two early maturing and twenty late maturing rapeseed and mustard lines were used for economic analysis. Three late maturing lines M-215, M-219 and M-224 showed outstanding results yielding 4.56 , 4.16 and 3.85 t ha⁻¹; respectively. The benefit-cost ratio of these three lines over total cost were 4.34, 3.97 and 3.67; respectively. Whereas two early maturing varieties namely Tori-7 and BARI Sarisha-14 accounted for benefit-cost ratio of 1.29 and 1.43, respectively; which were far too low from the selected lines. The findings of this study indicated that the late maturing lines are more profitable in terms of benefit-cost ratio although they showed declination in cropping intensity.