The present study was conducted in Belgaum district, major vegetable producing district of north Karnataka. Large number of farmers practice the organic cultivation of chilli in the district. For the study the required data were collected from the 30 farmers each practicing organic and inorganic cultivation of chilli spread over the district of Belgaum selected randomly, the data was analysed using the output decomposition model developed .
The study revealed that adopters of organic farming technology produced 27.07 per cent higher income from chilli production than inorganic farming adopters. The increase in the income was further decomposed into different sources of change such as adoption of organic farming technology and increased input levels. The organic farming technology alone could contribute 33.91 per cent increase in income, while the contribution of change in input levels was found to be negative (-6.84 per cent). Amongst the various inputs, organic manure/chemical fertilizers (0.83 per cent) and FYM (0.17 per cent) were found to contribute positively while rest of the inputs such as seed (-4.29 per cent), plant protection measures (-1.63 per cent), bullock and machine labour (-1.52 per cent) and human labour (-0.39 per cent) contributed negatively to the income.