Division of Agricultural Economics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India
*Corresponding author: nansnew@gmail.com (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7180-6587)
Online published on 27 May, 2021.
Vegetable plays key role in providing nutrition to human body. Vegetables are major sources of vitamins, minerals, fiber, iron, calcium etc. Potato is the highest yielding vegetable in the world as well as in India.
It is one of the significant vegetables of Indian consumer's food basket. Despite of high production, due to seasonal production and perishable nature market arrival and price are highly volatile in nature. So, the present study was conducted with an intension to study the trend in arrival and price of potato in four major markets in India along with their Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) and seasonality and variability associated with them. The study is based on secondary data collected from www.agmarknet. gov.in. Data was collected for the period March 2009 to March 2019, and the analysis was done based on that. Linear trend in arrival and nominal prices were found to be positive across the markets, however for real prices, it was found negative except Bangalore (` 5.50/q per annum). CAGR for arrival in all the four markets were found positive, and for real prices it was negative in most of the months. The main season of arrival of potato in different markets was December to March, and for prices index is highest during the off season. Variability in arrival is highest in Agra market and in price variability is highest in Azadpur market.
Highlights
CAGR of arrival were found positive, however for real prices it was negative in most of the months across the markets.
Trend in arrival and nominal prices were found to be positive in all the four markets, however for real price, it was found negative except Bangalore market.
Seasonal price index was found highest during the off season.
Vegetables, Potato, Compound Annual Growth Rate, Trend, Seasonality, Variability
