“Profitability And Constraint Analysis Of Commercial Floriculture Nursery Management In East Godavari District Of Andhra Pradesh”

The present study is intended to analyse the profitability and contraints of commercial floricultural nurseries in Kadiyam mandal of East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh during 2011-12. The break-even analysis was used to study the profitability which revealed that break-even output in value per hectare of commercial floricultural nursery was Rs. 15,78,250.04 for category I, Rs. 15,73,923.41 for category II and Rs. 15,76,086.73 for overall sample. The major constraint faced by the floricultural entrepreneurs as revealed by the Kendall’s coefficient of concordance (W) test were, the unavailability of sufficient human labour for carrying nursery operations followed by unavailability of continuous supply of electricity, unavailability of suitable soil, insufficient supply of water for irrigation, mortality of plants and lack of adequate transportation facilities.