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productivity at the different performance levels reveals that they almost
correspond to each other, indicating the mutual linkages of all the three
levels of productivity criteria.
The land-holding status at different productivity levels indicate
that the higher performers have a lower average land-size as compared
to the lower performers. The highest average fully irrigated area is
mostly on the higher performance as compared to the lowest fully
irrigated area. The land productivity levels show a higher confirmation
of this trend. If the size of fully irrigated area is taken as an indicator of
the level of access to irrigation., the above pattern only reinforces the
importance of irrigation in mulberry cultivation.
The average area of mulberry holding is more among the higher
performers as compared to the lower performers except in the case of
land productivity where both extremes fall on the side of the lower
performers, leaving out a medium scale to the higher performers. The
average number of DFLs reared per year per acre also shows that the
better performers at all the three levels seem to have a higher scale as
compared to the lower performers. This is comparable to the situation in
E N Pura. Here, the highest and the next highest performers at the seed
productivity levels, have been operating the highest and the lowest
average of mulberry land respectively. As for the scale of rearing, the
higher scale sericulturists are the ones who have also performed well.
The number of crops shows only a slight variation., with more frequency
on the higher performers.
As for the labour-use, naturally, there is an inverse relation with
the performance levels and a direct relationship with the labour index
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