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Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Compliance of Vegetable Crops in North Karnataka

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Title Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Compliance of Vegetable Crops in North Karnataka
 
Creator Naveen Kumar M.S.
 
Contributor C. Murthy
 
Subject Agribusiness Management
 
Description India is the fruit and vegetable basket of the world. India is the second largest
producer of vegetables that accounts about 16 per cent of the world production. India
has been with wide range of climate and physio-geographical conditions and as such
is most suitable for growing various kinds of horticulture crops such as fruits,
vegetables, flowers, nuts, spices and plantation crops.
There are four vegetable crops viz., cabbage, beans and carrot from Belgaum
district and onion from Dharwad district were selected for the study area. A total
random sample of 25 farmers of each vegetable crops, there total sample size is 100.
The selection of the districts were based on the highest area under vegetable crops,
among the eight districts of north Karnataka. In order to analyze to pesticide residues
of cabbage, beans, carrot and onion were subject to laboratory analysis. The analysis
was carried out in the laboratory of the Shriram Institute for Industrial Research at
Bangalore.
There are 91 pesticides were carried out by using standardized protocols for
residues of unknown pesticides for selected vegetable crops, among these carbon
disulfide pesticide residual content is found out above limit of quantification for onion
(0.35 mg/kg), cabbage (0.13 mg/kg) and carrot (0.11 mg/kg) but actual limit of
quantification for onion, cabbage and carrot is 0.1 mg/kg. Similarly for beans the
residue unknown pesticides were found to be below detectable level for all 91
pesticides. It was found that the farmers used more dosage of pesticide that the
recommended dosage. Farmers could be advised to go for non-cash inputs like
increasing the pest and disease resistant varieties sanitary and phyto-sanitary
measures. Proper packaging materials like corrugated fibre boxes should be used so as
to reduce the extent of damage or contamination to the produce
 
Date 2016-11-10T16:17:47Z
2016-11-10T16:17:47Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/84951
 
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Publisher UAS, Dharwad