Marketing of tomato crop in Durg district of Chhattisgarh

The present study analyses marketing of tomato crop in the Durg district of Chhattisgarh. For this 40 vegetable growers, and 10 village traders, wholesalers, retailers were selected. The data were collected with the help of a specially tested schedule by personal interview method. Three marketing networks have been established for the marketing of the main vegetables, which were Channel I:Producer’ to Consumer, Channel II: from farmer’ to Retailer;’ and Retailer’ to Consumer and Channel III: Producer to Wholesaler to Retailer to Consumer. The farmer's share of consumer's rupee was the largest in Channel I, followed by Channel II, and Channel III.