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A SWOT ANALYSIS ON TEA CULTIVATION IN NEPAL

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Title A SWOT ANALYSIS ON TEA CULTIVATION IN NEPAL
 
Creator KESHAV, KATTEL
 
Contributor VASANTHA, R
 
Subject tea (plant), tillage equipment, markets, manpower, crops, marketing, biological phenomena, diseases, planting, productivity
 
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.
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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
 
Date 2016-06-07T10:33:00Z
2016-06-07T10:33:00Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66896
 
Language en
 
Relation D8829;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY