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Production and Marketing of Major Vegetables in Belgaum District - an Economic Analsis

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Title Production and Marketing of Major Vegetables in Belgaum District - an Economic Analsis
 
Creator Sameer P. Lokapur
 
Contributor G.N. Kulkarni
 
Subject Agricultural Economics
 
Description Vegetables are rich and comparatively cheaper sources of vitamins. India stands as
the largest producer of vegetables in the world after China; it contributes over 13 per cent to
the world vegetable production. The study was conducted in Belgaum district having second
highest area under vegetables in the state. The area and production of major vegetables was
increasing in the district during 2003-04 to 2011-12. The multi-stage random sampling
procedure was adopted to choose the 120 sample farmers from selected tow taluks. The study
revealed that vegetable production is more labour intensive and per hectare labour utilization
was highest in case potato farms (78.77 man days) followed by onion farmers (70.25 man
days), tomato farmers (66.37 mandays) and green chilli farmers (48.13 man days). The total
cost incurred by farmers on potato cultivation was highest at Rs. 47299.86/ha as compared to
onion (Rs. 31240.2/ha), green chilli (Rs. 25797.37/ha), and tomato (Rs. 27532.42/ha) and was
attributed to high seed rate in potato. The net returns were quite high in vegetable production
and it was highest in onion (Rs. 93278.43/ha) and lowest was in case of green chilli (Rs.
29452.63/ha). The Cobb-Douglass production function indicated decreasing returns to scale
for all the vegetable crops. The MVP to MFC ratio for seed was 19.06, 3.10, 12.53 and 7.49
for onion, potato, green chilli and tomato farmers, respectively indicated higher scope to
intensify use of the input. The producer?s share in consumer rupee for these major vegetables
ranged between 50 to 58 per cent in Channel-I (through village merchant) and was between
45 to 55 per cent in Channel-II (through commission agent). Non-availability of labour was
the major problem expressed by most of the respondents. High incidence of pest and diseases
was another serious problem as experienced by many respondents.
 
Date 2016-11-22T16:52:17Z
2016-11-22T16:52:17Z
2013
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/87091
 
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Publisher UAS, Dharwad