SWOT analysis of soybean crop against the major crops existing in the northern Telangana zone

The study was undertaken with the objective to find out the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of soybean crop against the major crops existing in the northern Telangana zone. Study revealed that the major strengths of soybean crop against the major crops (cotton, sugarcane and maize) of the zone were requirement of less number of irrigations followed by low cost of cultivation and less drudgery in crop cultivation. Low seed viability and germination followed by difficult picking (harvesting) of soybean pods and low marketing intelligence were three major weaknesses. The major opportunities were subsidy on seed cost followed by low spreading of pests and diseases in line sowing, being drought tolerant (rainfed) crop and no role of middlemen in marketing. The major threats were availability of soya seed in time followed by price fluctuations and seed losing viability with minimum impact.