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SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS OF PADDY IN BIHAR

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Title SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS OF PADDY IN BIHAR
 
Creator PRADEEP KUMAR, J
 
Contributor SEEMA
 
Subject rice, markets, costs, marketing, milling, marketing margins, productivity, sampling, economics, area
BIHAR, PADDY
 
Description Rice remains a staple food for two-thirds of the world’s population and about four-fifths of the world’s rice is produced by small farmers and are consumed locally. Growing demand for rice is induced by rising incomes and consumption patterns coupled with declining farm incomes due to rising costs and stagnating productivity. The widening of the market channel helps in increasing the demand and guarantees a higher income to the producer. But lack of marketing facilities, high transportation costs and marketing margins of both retailers and wholesalers were identified as the major reasons for high marketing costs, adversely affecting the profitability. An efficient marketing helps the farmers in planning their production in accordance with the need of the economy by price signals. The study is planned with following specific objectives:
1. To study the source and supply of key inputs in paddy cultivation.
2. To study the postharvest practices and cost involved in Paddy processing.
3. To identify the various marketing channels and compare the efficiency and profitability of each channel.
Bihar was purposively selected for the study since the CSISA projects were operational in this area. A total of 128 farmers were selected from 8 districts i.e., 16 farmers from each district. Further 8 middle men, 8 millers, 8 input dealers and 8 retailers i.e., one from each district were identified for the study. The survey was conducted with the help of pre tested schedule.
Purchase of seed from the fellow farmers was still predominant in this region and about 43% of farmers followed this. About 72% of farmers
purchased fertilizers from private retailers and the rest were dependent on CSISA and co-operatives, similarly 83% of farmers bought pesticides from private retailers and the rest bought it from CSISA. The major source of irrigation is diesel operated water pump (81%) while the least dependent source of irrigation was river. More than 60% of famers were depended on hired machinery and 23% of farmers did not access to credit. Majority of farmers (95%) followed manual threshing whereas 3% of farmers used machinery while only 2% of farmer used combined harvesters. In modern mills the head rice yield was high (13.7%), broken rice loss is less (9.9%) and 25% of cost savings could be achieved over traditional hullers and shellers.
Majority of farmers (81.25%) were disposing their produce to commission agent followed by PACS, FCI, miller and consumer. The following three channels have been identified as most important in the study.
 Channel I: Producer – Commission Agent – Wholesaler - Miller - Retailer – Consumer
 Channel II: Producer – Miller – Retailer – Consumer
 Channel III: Producer – Procuring agency (FCI/Co-Op/GOVT) – Miller – Distribution agency – FPS (Fair Price Shop) – Consumer
Net price received by producer in channel – II was 16.3% more than channel – I. The producer’s share in consumer’s rupee in channel – I and II were 57.78% and 61.25%, respectively. Channel – III is 22.7% more profitable to producer over channel – I and 7.6% more profitable over channel – II. Lack of profitable marketing channel was identified as the constraint in paddy marketing major constraint in paddy marketing (94%). Therefore the government can initiate measures to popularize the channel – III which is more profitable to the producer.
 
Date 2016-06-09T14:05:40Z
2016-06-09T14:05:40Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67124
 
Language en
 
Relation D8890;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY