~ 615 ~ Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2021; Sp 10(2): 615-619 E-ISSN: 2278-4136 P-ISSN: 2349-8234 www.phytojournal.com JPP 2021; Sp 10(2): 615-619 Received: 07-11-2020 Accepted: 09-12-2020 Bandi Srikanth Ph.D. Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, VNMKV, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India KV Deshmukh Associate Professor Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, VNMKV, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India SS More Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, VNMKV, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India Corresponding Author: Bandi Srikanth Ph.D. Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, VNMKV, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India Resource use efficiency of maize in Telangana state Bandi Srikanth, KV Deshmukh and SS More Abstract Agriculture is an important sector to fuel in economic growth and it needs to be made more attractive. The present study will help farmers to improve economically profitable eventually leading to more inclusive development. Enabling policies for access to inputs, credit, markets and innovations will result in increased productivity, profitability and growth. Telangana is one of the large maize producing states in India; the maize production in the state has been largely influenced by increasing demand from the feed industries and various industrial uses, by calculating recourse use efficiency farmers can understand where he can improve his expenditure as well as efficiency to increase productivity, the present study explains regression coefficients with relation to various explanatory variables, geometric mean of inputs, marginal products, marginal value product, price of input, MVP to price ratio, and optimum recourse efficiency were calculated in present study. Cobb-Douglas type of Production Function was used to find the results. The results in elasticity of maize productivity examines that coefficient of multiple determination (R 2 ) was 0.908 which indicated that 90.80 percent effect of all independent variables together in maize productivity, and Return scale was 1.00 which indicated constant return to scale of maize farming of Telangana state. Some critical resources like Manure, Plant protection chemical and Nitrogen fertilizer are not used properly and there is a greater chance to increase these inputs in maize farming. Keywords: MVP, regression coefficients, geometric mean, marginal products, marginal value product, optimum recourse efficiency Introduction Agriculture is an important sector in economic growth and it needs to be made more remunerative, by creating necessary framework for strengthening the entire agriculture value chain, the present study will help farmers to improve economically profitable eventually leading to more inclusive development. Enabling policies for access to inputs, credit, markets and innovations will result in increased productivity, profitability and growth. With the globalization, the agricultural sector is opened up with new avenues, especially for agricultural enterprises. The cereals are of significant importance not only in providing nutritional support but also in earning additional income. Among the cereals, maize is a multifarious crop used as food and industrial crop globally grown extensively throughout the world and has the highest production role among all the cereal crops throughout the India and world. The importance of maize lies in its wide industrial applications besides serving as human food and animal feed. As the demand for maize is growing globally due to its multiple uses for food, feed, and industrial sectors, Among cereals and millets, oil is extracted only from maize; a strong demand for ethanol production has resulted in increased maize prices and has provided incentives to increase maize acreage, Every part of the maize plant has economic value; the grains, leaves, stalk, tassel, and cob can all be used to produce a variety of food and non-food products Methodology The study was undertaken on a macro framework based on primary data collected from personal interview, multi stage sampling design was adopted for selection of districts, mandals, and villages and selected 120 maize growers from major maize growing districts of state. To examine the resource use efficiency in the production of maize was achieved by Cobb Douglas and functional analysis. The production function approach was used to examine the productivity of resources used in the cultivation of Maize. For this purpose, the Cobb-Douglas production function was employed.