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A LOCATION MODEL FOR POTATO PROCESSING IN UTTAR PRADESH

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Title A LOCATION MODEL FOR POTATO PROCESSING IN UTTAR PRADESH
 
Creator PRABHULING TEVARI
 
Contributor B. R. Atteri
 
Subject potatoes, costs, markets, productivity, planting, economics, area, marketing, storage, manpower
 
Description t-8022
The farmers can realize bette
r price if the surplus of potato can be sold to
processing sector. Thus farmers income can
be raised by improving value addition
facility like processing and improving other
marketing infrastructure. The present study
was undertaken with such an objective. Th
e basic objectives the study were to examine
farm size-wise production, utilization, cost
/returns and marketing of potato. The study
also attempts to estimate the costs and returns for various processing plants as well as
number and location of potato processing plants in selected districts of Uttar Pradesh.
Multi stage random sampling was used to select 160 farmers in randomly
selected sixteen selected villages in f
our important potato growing or processing
districts of Farrukhabad,
Kannauj, Ghaziabad and Gaut
am Buddha Nagar selected
purposively. Tabular analysis along with weight
ed averages were used to work out cost
of cultivation, economics of production usi
ng various cost components and on-farm
utilization and physical infrastr
ucture facilitie
s available in the study domain. In order to
determine the optimum location and number of potato processing plants in different
districts of Uttar Pradesh, Stollstemier (1963) model was used.
The study revealed that there was a signi
ficant decrease in area and production
of potato in Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddha Naga
r districts. In the context of the farm
size, with respect to group wise across all the districts it was found that the total cost of
cultivation of potato per hectare increased wi
th the increase in the size of the farm.
Seed, labour and fertilizers inputs were the major cost inputs used in the production by
the farmers of all the districts. The expend
iture on seed and seed treatments incurred
was higher among the large and medium farmers as compared to small farmers, as large
and medium farmers were using large amount
of high yielding varieties. Small farmers
had disposed of their produce mainly durin
g harvesting period due to their weak
financial condition. The contract farming and
transportation facility to distant consumer
markets helped the large and medium farmers of Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddha Nagar
districts to realize the better
prices. The average gross return
s per hectare increased with
the increase in the size of the farms. It was observed that positive relationship exist
between the size of the farm and marketable
surplus. Produce retained for seed purpose
constituted relatively a high magnitude in
on-farm utilization of potato across all the
categories of farmers.
The cumulative effects of infrastructure accentuate the process of
commercialization in agriculture and rural sect
or, as it was evident in case of Ghaziabad
and Gautam Buddha Nagar districts. Uttar Prad
esh state is the largest potato processing
state in the country with insta
lled capacity of 20,500 tonnes.
The results for investment analysis in potato processing units showed that, the
total costs involved for setting up a processi
ng plant of different capacity was Rs. 7.03,
Rs. 22.22 and Rs. 47.86 lakh for Plant I (37.5kg/hr), Plant II (62.5kg/hr) and Plant III
(100 kg/hr), respectively.
The optimum locations for establishing potato-processing
plants with minimized transportation cost were Chibramau, Talgram, Kamalganj and
Badpur in Farrukhabad and Kannauj districts with installed capacity
of 80, 50, 30 and
20 tonnes per year, respectively.
The availability of labour
and processing
quality potato
varieties was the common constraints faced by farmers in all the surveyed districts.
Thus non-availability of suitable desired va
rieties, high wages, high transport charges
and lack of institution credit were the common major problems in all the districts
 
Date 2017-01-06T15:14:53Z
2017-01-06T15:14:53Z
2008
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/94879
 
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