Agriculture Update

P. M. Dahiwade ¹, B. R. Pawar ¹, P. S. Mane ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Latur M.S., IN
2 Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Latur M.S, IN

Abstract

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Keywords

Wheat, Marketing Channel,marketing Cost, Price Spread

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P. S. Mane ¹, B. R. Pawar ², P. M. Dahiwade ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Latur, M. S., IN
2 Department of Agricultural Economics, Vasantrao Naik Krishi Vidhyapeeth, Parbhani, M. S., IN
3 Department of Agricultural Economics, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidhyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar, M. S., IN

Abstract

Study was conducted for estimation of price spread in different channels of groundnut in Maharashtra. For the study, about 96 summer groundnut growers were randomly selected with area under groundnut and were stratified into two groups like TAG-24 and SB-11 groundnut grower from eight villages of Sengaon tehsil of Hingoli district. Five wholesalers, five village retailers and five town retailers were selected to investigate marketing cost and marketing margin in groundnut marketing. The data pertained for year 2011-12. The results revealed that, price paid by consumer was the highest as Rs. 6470.41 in channel-III (P-W-TR-TC) in which producer's share in consumer's rupee was 71.89 per cent and price spread was found to be Rs. 2119.12. In channel-II (P-VR-VC) price paid by consumer was found to be Rs. 6155.21 in which producer's share in consumer's rupee was 72.08 per cent and price spread was Rs. 1718.44. In channel-I (P-PW-OC) price paid by consumer was Rs. 5035.93 in which producer's share in consumer's rupee was 86.28 per cent and price spread was found to be Rs. 690.92. Thus, in absolute term, net price received by producer was the highest in channel-III followed by that of in channel-II and channel-I.

Keywords

Groundnut, Marketing Channel,marketing Cost, Price Spread

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P. M. Dahiwade ¹, A. V. Gavali ¹, A. R. Kulkarni ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Ahmednagar (M.S.), IN

Abstract

The regionwise compound growth rates were estimated for the time periods i.e. pre-WTO period (1960-61 to 1994-95), post-WTO period (1995-96 to 2012-13) and overall period (1960-61 to 2012- 13). During the pre-WTO period the rates of compound growth in consumption of N, P and K at the overall level of Maharashtra were 6.06, 7.11 and 5.87 per cent per annum, respectively. The highest consumption of nitrogenous fertilizers was observed in Marathwada region (10.38 %) while highest consumption of phosphatic (10.38 %) and potassic (9.92 %) fertilizers were observed in western Maharashtra. During post-WTO period the consumption of nitrogenous, phosphatic and potassic fertilizers was lowest in Konkan region with the rate of growth of 0.99 per cent, 1.67 per cent and 2.02 per cent per annum, respectively. For the overall period (1960-61 to 2012-13), the consumption pattern of total fertilizers exhibits variation among all the regions in Maharashtra. The annual compound growth rates in phosphorus and nitrogenous consumption were substantially higher during pre-WTO period as compared to overall period and post-WTO period in Maharashtra State. Wide variations in NPK consumption in various regions was observed may due to variations in soil type, nature of cropping pattern, availability of irrigation, rainfed nature of crops and varied stages of agro-economic development.

Keywords

Fertilizer, Fertilizer Consumption, Compound Growth Rates.

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