Marketing behaviour of onion growers in flood prone eastern plain zone of Rajasthan

The requirement of vegetable in the country is rapidly increasing because of increasing population and higher living standard of the people. The onion bulbs are widely used as an essential component of food and in medicinal forms and also as an immediate source of farmer's income. The objectives of the study were to analyze the marketing behaviour of the onion cultivation and to identify the constraints faced by farmers in marketing of onion. The study was conducted at Kishangarh block in Alwar district of Rajasthan. One hundred twenty farmers were selected randomly for the study. The most popular channel for marketing of onion was collector-broker-local trader-farmers and for marketing of onion it was farmer-broker-collector-local trader-farmers and for export of seeds it was farmers-broker-exporter. The localite sources like fellow farmers and friends, brokers and local merchants were the important sources of market information. The attitude of farmers towards various aspects of marketing was considerably low. The major constraints in marketing were lack of organized marketing, uncertainty about future price and unavailability of quality planting material.