Traditional and Modern Turmeric Cultivation in Belgaum District of Karnataka - A Comparative Management Appraisal
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Traditional and Modern Turmeric Cultivation in Belgaum District of Karnataka - A Comparative Management Appraisal
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Sarfaraz K. Shaikh
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C. Murthy
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Agribusiness Management
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Turmeric strictly speaking is a condiment crop which has been used for colouring, flavoring and medicinal purposes. It ranks fourth in area 3043583 (hacters) and second in production 5933126 (tonn) in India, in Karnataka area 18035 (hacters) and production 90448 (tonn) and Belgaum area 1148 (hacters) and production 8336 (ton) in year 2001-2012. The present study were conducted in Traditional and Modern Turmeric Cultivation in Belgaum District of Karnataka ? A Comparative Management Appraisal, because this district having highest traditional and modern of turmeric cultivation. In this district two talukas were randomly selected namely Athani and Raibag farmers for turmeric cultivation. The study conducted in the year 2012-13 revealed that highest labour requirement was seen on traditional category farmers (78.64 man days) followed by modern farmers (67.20 man days) because most of the operations such as planting, harvesting, picking, weeding were human labour intensively more. The highest yield was obtained by modern farmers (27.68 qtls) followed by traditional farmers (23.14 qtls). Among the two categories of farmers the total cost incurred by the traditional farmers were high (Rs. 74898.74 per acre) as compared to modern farmer (Rs.67634.27 per acre). The average processing cost of traditional turmeric farmers was Rs. 9076.80 per acre as against Rs. 6724.20 per acre of modern farmers. The summation of regression co-efficients indicated for traditional farmers (0.92) and increasing returns to scale were observed form modern farmers (1.03). Total cost in quintal of turmeric value addition was Rs. 11027.02 and Rs. 11434.55 for traditional and modern farmers respectively. Marketing efficiency in modern farmers was 1.37 and in traditional farmers it is 1.25. The total net income from traditional farmers of Rs. 78977.03 per acre and modern farmers of Rs.121697.43. Turmeric rhizome of high quality should be made available to the farmers at affordable rates to increase the use by farmers and to increase their profitability. |
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2016-11-22T13:58:33Z
2016-11-22T13:58:33Z 2013 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/87006
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application/pdf
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UAS, Dharwad
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