Production and Marketing of Major Vegetables in Belgaum District - an Economic Analsis
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Production and Marketing of Major Vegetables in Belgaum District - an Economic Analsis
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Sameer P. Lokapur
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G.N. Kulkarni
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Agricultural Economics
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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. |
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2016-11-22T16:52:17Z
2016-11-22T16:52:17Z 2013 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/87091
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application/pdf
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UAS, Dharwad
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