A SWOT ANALYSIS ON TEA CULTIVATION IN NEPAL
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A SWOT ANALYSIS ON TEA CULTIVATION IN NEPAL
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Creator |
KESHAV, KATTEL
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Contributor |
VASANTHA, R
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Subject |
tea (plant), tillage equipment, markets, manpower, crops, marketing, biological phenomena, diseases, planting, productivity
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Description |
The present study on “SWOT analysis on tea cultivation in Nepal” was undertaken to come out with the indicators for better performance of tea growers in Nepal. An exploratory research design was adopted for the study and two different districts belonging to the terai and hilly region of Nepal were selected. Three VDC’s from each district were selected thus making a total of six. 15 respondents from each village were randomly selected for the study. Also, a total of 30 stakeholders working for the development of the tea sector were selected to get an expert view on the research problem. Majority of the respondents were of the middle age group and educated up to high school level, low experience in tea cultivation and were semi-medium farmers. Fifty per cent of the respondents had medium socio-economic status. Majority of them had low extension contact with the extension agencies. Majority of the respondents did not receive any training. In case of market intelligence, majority of them had medium market intelligence. Majority of the respondents sold their products within 5 kms from the village, opined the marketing facilities as poor, transported their products in vehicles and sold directly to factories. Majority of the respondents indicated that though they felt that they had more than 5 available markets, the market are not regulated and do not have storage facilities. A considerable percentage of respondents reported though wages of labour are fair their availability is difficult for tea cultivation and they are not timely available. Majority of the respondents expressed that the inputs are available beyond 10 kms from the village, they are not timely available and farmers have to wait for few days for receiving inputs. Majority of the respondents had utilized loans from the lending agencies. Majority of the respondents had medium risk orientation, innovativeness and achievement motivation. A large majority of the respondents had medium knowledge followed by low and high knowledge on recommended tea cultivation practices. Majority of the respondents were in the category of medium level of adoption of recommended tea cultivation practices followed low adoption and high level of adoption. xi The important strengths perceived by the tea cultivators were higher profits than other crops, hilly slopes and undulating lands not suitable for other crops can be effectively utilized for tea cultivation, suitable acidic and fertile soils for tea cultivation, regular cash generation from short term harvests, permanent cash crop, easy availability of inputs in domestic market, young age bushes of existing gardens producing good quality leaves, easy maintenance in terms of trails and drain maintenance, manuring and pruning, etc., family labour can be employed in small farms for majority of operations and not damaged by wild animals like elephants which is a common havoc in terai. The important weaknesses perceived by the tea cultivators were increasing pests and disease problems, high initial investments, shortage of labour for large scale tea cultivation, long gestation period required (5-7 years), poor quality of inputs, higher input costs, high costs of cultivation, lack of farm infrastructure, low yields than neighbouring Indian regions and very low shelf life of green leaves. The important opportunities in tea cultivation perceived by the tea cultivators were congenial climate for tea cultivation, availability of markets in the vicinity in Terai region, scope for higher yields as the bushes grow old, new processing units under construction in Ilam district for processing of increasing volume of green leaves, small scale cottage industries slowly coming up at village level for tea processing, increasing number of cooperative societies and farmer organizations, cheaper than Indian tea so more scope for exports, scope for organic and other speciality teas such as green tea as consumer awareness is growing, possibility of procuring inputs from the Indian border and supervision and guidance available from local tea consultants. The important threats in tea cultivation perceived by the tea cultivators were inadequate government support in terms of providing subsidies/loans/special concessions/privileges for tea growers, frequent price slashes due to changes in export policies or unregulated domestic markets, ineffective Extension and Research on tea by NTCDB, migration of labour to cities and towns leading to shortage, green leaves to be sold only in domestic market due to ban on Indian traders, lack of proper approach roads from farm gate to markets, frequent transport strikes causing huge losses, malpractices by middleman leading to low prices for farmers and high prices in market, lack of market information services and dependency on technicians across the border |
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Date |
2016-06-07T10:33:00Z
2016-06-07T10:33:00Z 2011 |
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Thesis
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Identifier |
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66896
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Language |
en
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D8829;
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application/pdf
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Publisher |
ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
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