~ 170 ~ Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2019; SP5: 170-172 E-ISSN: 2278-4136 P-ISSN: 2349-8234 JPP 2019; SP5: 170-172 Rajeev Singh Department of Agricultural Economics, NDUAT Kumarganj Faizabad Uttar Pradesh, India GP Singh Department of Agricultural Economics, NDUAT. Kumarganj Faizabad Uttar Pradesh, India Santosh Kumar Mishra Department of Agricultural Economics, NDUAT, Kumarganj Faizabad Uttar Pradesh, India Swatantra Pratap Singh Department of Agricultural Economics, NDUAT, Kumarganj Faizabad Uttar Pradesh, India BP Shahi KVK Pilibhit SVPUAT Meerut Department of Agricultural Economics Udai Pratap autonomous College Varanasi Mohil Kumar CCS University Meerut Uttar Pradesh, India Gaurav Singh Vishen Department of Horticulture, N. DUAT Kumarganj Faizabad Uttar Pradesh, India Correspondence Rajeev Singh Department of Agricultural Economics, N. D. U. A. & T. Kumarganj Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India (Special Issue- 5) International Conference on “Food Security through Agriculture & Allied Sciences” (May 27-29, 2019) Costs and income analysis of gram pulse crop cultivation in Azamgarh District of eastern Uttar Pradesh Rajeev Singh, GP Singh, Santosh Kumar Mishra, Swatantra Pratap Singh, BP Shahi, Mohil Kumar and Gaurav Singh Vishen Abstract Pulses are important with the view of their food and nutritional security and also income and employment generation ability possibility to raise the cropping intensity due to its nature of best fit with food grain production system. Study was conducted in Thekma block of Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. A sample of 100 respondents were chosen through purposive cum proportionate random sampling and were categories as marginal, small and medium size group of farms. A survey was conducted by personal interview method with use of pre-structured schedule. Simple tabular analysis was done to find out the result. It was found that Gram cultivation was profitable at all categories of farm. The total costs of cultivation and gross income per hectare were positively related with size of farms, where as negative trend of net income with farm size should that resources are not efficiently used in Gram cultivation at larger size group of farm. Keywords: Gram, tabular analysis, weighted mean Introduction Pulses are good sources of proteins and commonly called the poor man’s meat (Reddy 2010). The frequency of pulses consumption is much higher than any other source of protein; about 89.00 percent population consume pulses at least once a week, while only 35.40 percent of persons consume fish or chicken/meat at least once a week in India (IIPS, ORC Macro, 2007). At the world level pulses are grown in an area of 78 million hectares with an annual production of 70 million tonnes (MT) and productivity of 908 kg/hectare (FAO & Agricultural org. 2012). In India pulses are grown on 22.23 million hectares of area with an annual production of 13.15 million tonnes (MT). India accounts for 33% of the world ’ s area under pulses and 22% of the world production of pulses. About 90.00% of the global Pigeonpea, 65.00% of chickpea and 37.00% of lentil area falls in India, corresponding to 93.00, 68.00 and 32.00 percent; of the global production, respectively (FAO Stat 2011). Area production and productivity of pulses in India were 23.47 million hactare, 18.34 million tonnes, and 781 kg/ha respectively (National Council of Applied Economic Research New Delhi 2012-13). While area, production, and productivity in Uttar Pradesh were 2.31 million hectare, 1.71 million tones and 742.00 kg/hectare respectively (Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture and cooperation 2013-14). Area, production, and productivity of pulse crops in Azamgarh district were 18533.00 hectare, 22352 metric tonnes, and 12.6 Q/ha respectively during the period 2011-2012. (Statistical Report District Azamgarh 2011-12). Area, production and productivity of Gram pulse crop in Azamgarh district were 3213.00 hectare, 4220.00 metric tonnes and 13.13 Q/ha respectively during the period 2011-12. (Statistical Report District Azamgarh 2011-12). Methodology Sampling technique The purposive com random sampling design was used for the selection of district, block villages and respondents.