International Research Journal of Agricultural Economics and Statistics

S. Ashokkumar ¹, S. G. Aski ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Agriculture College, Dharwad (Karnataka), IN
2 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Agriculture College, Vijayapura (Karnataka), IN

Abstract

The study was conducted in Belagavi and Haveri districts of Northern Karnataka during 2015-16 to know the nature of marketing of cabbage. The findings of the study depicts that 57.50 per cent of cabbage growers get the market information from the others who visits market followed by mobile (32.50%) and personally visiting market (10.00%), respectively. Exactly equal (40.00%) per cent of the respondents were using mini tempo and truck as the means of transport. More than half (57.50%) of the respondents sold their produce to the village merchants followed by commission agents (33.33%) and consumers (9.17%). Further, farm gate (57.50%) acted as the major venue for marketing followed by exactly equal (16.67%) per cent of respondents sold their produce in local agricultural produce marketing committee (APMC) and distant markets and meager (9.16%) of respondents sold produce directly to the consumers. The problem of pest and disease in production and fluctuation in market price in marketing ranked first in constraints faced by the cabbage growers.

Keywords

Cabbage, Nature of Marketing, Constraints.

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Jameer R. Attar ¹, S. G. Aski ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture (U.A.S.) Vijayapur (Karnataka), IN
2 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), IN

Abstract

Fruits are of great importance in the field of human nutrition. Citrus is one of the most important fruit crop in India. Citrus fruits have a special place in Indian diet as they are rich source of vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin B and fruit sugars. The present investigation was conducted in Vijayapura and Kalaburagi district of Northern Karnataka in the year 2013-14. A sample size of 140 respondents who have minimum one acre of lime orchard and who have at least five years and above old orchard were selected randomly. The data was collected through personal interview method with the help of structured interview schedule. The results indicates that, comparatively more number (42.14 %) of farmers belonged to medium adoption category, followed by high (34.29 %) and low (23.57 %) adoption category. It was also observed that, education, land holding, annual income, extension contact, mass media participation, experience in lime cultivation and economic motivation found to have positive and significant relationship with the adoption level of lime growers.

Keywords

Adoption, Citrus Fruits, Lime Growers.

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Jameer R. Attar ¹, S. G. Aski ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture, University of Agicultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), IN
2 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture (U.A.S.), Vijayapur (Karnataka), IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted in the Vijayapura and Kalaburagi district of Northern Karnataka in the year 2013-14 on basis of largest cultivated area under lime. The purpose of fixing the criteria of five years and above old orchard was that the Lime requires more than five years to harvest good crop, so in five years one can harvest at least one crop which facilitates to study the knowledge and adoption of Lime grower. The total sample size of the respondents is 140 for the study. The study revealed that with respect to nature of marketing reveals that, 63.57 per cent of lime growers marketed their lime fruits through commission agents, while 36.43 per cent of the lime growers were selling to local retailers. In case of reasons for selling through local retailers 33.57 per cent of farmers quoted the reason of it helps to buy other necessary material, followed by nearest distance from market (29.29%), shortage of manpower/family members (20.71%) and helps to realise higher profit (16.43%). Majority 72.86 per cent of lime growers faced the constraint of non-availability of labour followed by nonavailability of sufficient loan and high rate of interest (70.00 %).

Keywords

Marketing Pattern, Citrus Fruits, Lime Growers.

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