Production cost of major crops in district Bahawalpur (Pakistan): An economic analysis

This paper focuses on the production cost of major crops in bahawalpur district. we have estimated the production cost per unit and net income per unit area of major crops. the primary source of data collection was multistage purposive sampling technique in order from tehsil,village and respondents. the sample size consists of four tehsils such as bahawalpur,yazman,ahmadpur east and hasilpur,12 villages and 120 respondents. two major crops that have been taken for analysis purpose are wheat and cotton. results showed that high variation is caused in output/income due to fluctuation in cost of production of cotton and wheat. r2- shows 79% variation in income of wheat is due to cost factors and for cotton its 97% in ahmedpur east. in yazman,97% variation in income of cotton and wheat is due to factors of production. in bahawalpur district,95.6% variation in income of wheat and 87% variation in income of cotton is due to variation in cost of these crops. in hasilpur,85.7 % and 84.5% variation in income of wheat and cotton is due to variation in cost of production factors. all results were found to be significant at p=0.000. whereas,results of cotton were found to be insignificant and negative relationship was found between cost and output/income.