Problems in King Chilli (Capsicum spp.) Cultivation and Status of Extension Services in Mon District, Nagaland, India

A study was conducted to identify problems in Naga King Chilli (Capsicum spp.) cultivation and to assess the level of extension services received by King Chilli growers in Mon district, Nagaland, India. Data were collected by personal interview with the help of interview schedule from 100 respondents. The respondents were asked to mention important problems faced by them in king chilli cultivation and also asked to suggest measures to address the problems. Altogether, eight problems were identified, these can be categorized into two groups, namely, problems related to ‘infrastructure and facility’, and ‘crop production and management.’Marketing was the most important problem followed by transportation, storage and processing. Farmers are getting only around 1/3^rd of the consumers or end users price of their produce. If we ensure the 50 per cent of consumers or end users price for its producer/farmer, then it is easy to achieve ‘Doubling Farmers'Income'by 2022. Further, degree of extension support received by the farmers was measured. Performance of public sector extension was in pitiable state, although, third sector performed to some extent. It can be recommended that Agricultural extension delivery mechanism is the pre requisite to surpass the problems in agrarian scenario. A reorientation of institutional and policy mechanism of state agricultural policy and agricultural extension delivery mechanism is urgently needed.