ECONOMICS OF POST HARVEST TECHNOLOGY OF GROUNDNUT IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT
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ECONOMICS OF POST HARVEST TECHNOLOGY OF GROUNDNUT IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT
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JAGADISWAR, V
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CHANDRA REDDY, T
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ECONOMICS, POST, HARVEST, TECHNOLOGY, GROUNDNUT, CHITTOOR ,DISTRICT
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India has been experiencing the alarming situation of increased import of edible oils and the consequent inevitable drain on foreign exchange reserves. This could be avoided to some extent, by the concerted efforts in post-harvest technological operations which includes stora·ge, drying, shelling, crushing, etc. These operations are chiefly carried out by the oil processing industry which, in·ter alia, includes groundnut oil mills and oil rotaries. Their sound economical operations was the key factor for the healthy environment of decreased oil imports. These situations warrant to probe into economies of post-·harvest technology of groundnut. So the present study entitled 'Economics of Post-Harvest Technology of Groundnut in Chittoor District' was undertaken. Chittoor district in Rayalaseema region ranks second in acreage and production of groundnut besides the of sizeable number of processing units, which selection of this district for indepth study. existence led to the 15 oil mills and 15 oil rotaries were selected randomly and survey method was adopted in which specifically designed, pre-tested questionnaire was used to record the responses from the respondents during the year 1987-'88. Oil mills were post-stratified into two categories, category-A and category-a, based on the presence or absence of godown storage practice respectively. This was to carry out analysis on storage aspects of oil mills only as the rotaries do not store any produce. Oil mills and oil rotaries were post-classified, based on horse power capacities into five categories each. Oil mills between 25-35 horse power are categorised as category-!, 35-45 as category-II, 45-55 as category-III, 55-65 as category-IV, and 65-75 as category-V. Oil rotaries with a capacity between 5-10 horse power are categorised as category~!, 10-15 horse power as category-II, 15-20 as category-III, 20-25 as category-IV and 25-30 as category-V. This classification is to bring about conditions for easy analysis on costs and returns and other aspects. Tabular, break-even and business ratio analyses are applied to arrive at the results. Storage costs and losses per quintal of kernels stored are less in category-A compared to category-B. Rodents, moisture and insects are the chief causative factors for storage losses. Costs per quintal of oil production are low in categories-!! and III in oil mills and category-V in oil rotaries. ·This led to the highest 11et returns in them. Category-IV oil mills and oil rotaries, on account of higher proportionate -repair charges incurred more processing costs and thus low net returns. The source of returns in oil mills was from sale of oil and oil cake, · -whereas rotaries obtained returns from hire operation of kernels crushed. Oil mills purchased kernels and paid taxes while they are absent in rotories. This led to the higher costs and net returns in mills and vice-versa in rotories. Employment generation is more in oil mills compared to rotories. All categories of oil mills and oil rotories are profitabl,Yoperated as was revealed~· break-even analysis as well as business ratio analysis. Oil recovery performance is comparatively better in oil mills. Rotories are easy to establish, sitnple to operate, provid~ . employment to family labour and should be encouraged |
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2016-08-06T10:44:22Z
2016-08-06T10:44:22Z 1989 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/71183
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Language |
en
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D3073;
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application/pdf
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ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD
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