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Is the Organic System Economically Viable? The Case of Pineapple in India’s Northeast

ABSTRACT This study intends to fill the gaps in the organic agriculture literature emerging from infrequent use of farm budget-related data, overlooking the imputed costs and non-existence of long-run return and profitability estimates. The results suggest that the organic system is economically unviable as the growers fail to recover their total production cost. However, growers’ returns exceed their ‘perceived’ production cost, which excludes their imputed expenses. Temporal, spatial, and size-based analysis also attests to this. On the contrary, cultivation in two sample villages where the household’s size, its head’s age, percentage of land, and yield are significantly higher, remain economically viable.