Economic assessment of different farming systems under sesame-groundnut-chickpea cropping sequence

An experiment conducted during summer 2022, kharif 2022 and rabi 2022-23 at Instructional Farm, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh (Gujarat) to study the economic assessment of different farming systems under sesame-groundnut-chickpea cropping sequence. The experiment was laid out on non-organic and fixed plot with large plot technique having three treatments of different farming system viz., Low Budget Natural Farming (LBNF), Organic Farming (OF) and Conventional Farming (CF). The results revealed that, conventional farming system comprised recommend dose of chemical fertilizers, FYM and inorganic pesticides recorded maximum gross returns, net returns and B:C ratio, while, under the consideration of premium price i.e. 25% higher than normal market price, higher net returns was recorded under the organic farming system in all three season viz., summer 2022, kharif 2022 and rabi 2022-23.