Opinion of respondents in respect to crop production and profit of potato and garlic in Etawah district: A case study

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most productive and widely grown food crops in the world. Globally, it ranks fourth most important food crop after maize, wheat and rice. It produces approximately twice as many calories per hectare as rice or wheat. Due to its wide adaptability potato is grown in both tropical and temperate environments and elevations from sea level to 4000 m (Poehlman and David, 2003). Potato is an important crop of the world and is grown on around 18.3 million hectare with a production of 295 millions tones. Its world's average yield is 50.5 kg/year. The annual compound growth rate from 1949–1950 to 1995–1996 for area, production and yield of potato was 3.50, 6.00 and 1.41% respectively. Potato contributes about 1.23% to the gross production from agricultural and allied activities in India (Prasad, 2006). Potato is grown in 1, 140 hundred ha in India and produces 19, 244 hundred tones with a yield of 16.9 tones per ha. Potato is good and cheap source of carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and proteins. It also provides most of the trace elements which can meet the energy requirements of humans (Sharma, 2001). On the basis of the above comparison study between potato and garlic production (Opinion of respondents in respect to crop production and profit of potato and garlic) in the year 2014. It can be concluded that all the cost of production parameters of both above crops along with the yield cost, Garlic crop cultivation for farmers was better than Potato crop cultivated.