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E survey to analyse perception of agricultural experts regarding priority setting for future research in vegetables in India

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Title E survey to analyse perception of agricultural experts regarding priority setting for future research in vegetables in India
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Creator Shubhadeep Roy et al
 
Subject Research priority, Vegetables, E Survey, Perception, Agribusiness, Postharvest
 
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Demand of vegetables shows increasing trend
due to enhanced health consciousness and purchasing power
of Indian population. The productivity of vegetables is 17.3
million tonnes per hectare which is not sufficient to meet
projected requirement of producing 225 million tonnes
vegetables by 2030. Moreover 25–30 % vegetables go waste
every year due to pre or post-harvest losses. Although India
ranks second in vegetable production after China, this sector
is still unorganized in scientific and economic terms. With
this background, this perception study was designed to
identify critical problematic areas, which seek priorities in
future research to strengthen vegetable sector in India.
Statements of problem under 6 major vegetable research
sectors were formulated. Research priorities were obtained
by calculating weighted average (WA) on the perception
scores given against the statements of problem by 75
respondents of Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(ICAR), State Agricultural Universities (SAU) and Krishi
Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and subsequently ranking of the
priorities were assigned. Rank one priorities under 6 major
vegetable research sectors identified were developing climate resilient varieties (WA = 4.98), standardizing crop
and area specific fertilizer schedule (WA = 3.98), estimating actual seed requirement of important vegetables
(WA = 5.63), standardizing pesticide doses (WA = 3.39), well defined post-harvest handling techniques (WA = 6.26)
and infrastructure and cold storage facility (WA = 7.65).
Interaction among different priority issues had been identified through regression analysis. Although priority setting is
an ongoing process, this paper tries to flag some empirically
tested issues which should be regarded as priority areas of
research to strengthen vegetable sector in India.
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Date 2021-01-02T05:36:16Z
2021-01-02T05:36:16Z
2015-05-20
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
2250-1746
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/44449
 
Language English
 
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