Farming system is a resource management strategy to achieve economic and sustained production to meet diverse requirement to farm household while presenting resources bare and maintaining a high level environmental quality. The simple tool to assess the costs and returns of the crops is cost cultivation by using various cost concepts.

The present book entitled “Economics of Farming System” provide the detailed methodology to workout the costs and return of various crops like cereals, plantation crops, spice crops, orchard crops and vegetable crops. This book will help in course curricular of UG, PG and Ph.D. level in field of agricultural economics. This book would be very useful for students, teachers, researchers and policy makers who are engaged in the field of agricultural economics.

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Sampling plan and analytical procedures. 3. Socio-economic profile of respondents. 4. Economics of cereals crop production. 5. Economics of turmeric production. 6. Economics of turmeric production. 7. Economics of orchards crop production. 8. Conclusions. References. Index.