Abstract

                                Farm production results from combining in various proportions the different factors of production land, labour, capital and management. Profit maximisation, then, is an attainable condition only when the farmer decides on the amounts and combinations of these four major resources of production. Any attempt to maximise farm profits, therefore, requires a prior knowledge of the productivity and returns of these resources used in farm production. So a study was undertaken in 1958-59 to estimaté the nature of resource returns from a random sample of farms in Coimbatore taluk. Such information on resource utilisation and productivity will help to determine the quantity of particular cate- gories of resources which should be employed and how the several resources should be combined for maximum production.

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