Author : Santhosha k m
Keyword : Saw-mill, socio-economic, cost and return, value addition, wood logs.
Subject : Agricultural research
Article Type : Original article (research)
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Abstract : The study focused on profitability, value of addition and constraint analysis of wood log entrepreneurs in the Canara forest circle of Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. Primary data collected by using the structured questionnaires. There were 78 registered wood log entrepreneurs in Canara Forest Circle of Karnataka. All the wood log entrepreneurs were considered so as to formulate population study for the mentioned division. The data collected were analysed using descriptive, cost-returns, value-added ratio, and rank-based quotient analysis. The study's revealed that most of the respondents belong to the middle-age (48 %) and around 42 per cent of respondents were graduated. Majority of the respondents were male (> 88%) and living in nuclear families (71%). Almost half of the wood log entrepreneurs are landless, so they practice wood logging as their main occupation with sole proprietorship (82%). Cost-returns analysis elucidates that the total cost for wood processing was accounted for Rs. 9.6 crores, out of which 92 per cent accounts for variable cost and the remaining accounts for fixed cost. Around Rs. 15 crores are generated as revenue from the main product and by-products, including saw powder (Rs.1.9 lakhs) and fire wood (Rs. 4.1 lakhs) with the returns per rupee of investment of 1.66. Among the value addition, sofa sets have the highest value-added product (ratio 0.62) followed by dining tables (0.55), doors (0.52), office tables (0.49) and windows (0.45). The study also identified several constraints faced by wood log entrepreneurs such as labour shortages, income tax obligations, government policies of raw material procurement, high transportation costs and scarcity of raw material.
Article by : SANTHOSHA K M
Article add date : 2024-01-28
How to cite : Santhosha k m. (2024-January-28). Business appraisal and livelihood sustainability of wood log entrepreneurs in canara forest circle of western ghats hilly zone, karnataka. retrieved from https://www.openacessjournal.com/abstract/1524