Constraints Faced by Turmeric Growers About Improved Cultivation Practices

The sample constituted 90 Turmeric farmers drawn from 10 villages from the Buldhana district of tow panchayate samiti namely Lonar and Mehkar. The exploratory design of social research was used. Finding revealed that (72.22%) majority of turmeric growers faced with constraints like Low price of turmeric crop, one third of turmeric growers (63.33%) faced with constraints like Non-availability of labour at the time of transplanting and harvesting, one third of turmeric growers (60.11%) faced with constraints like faced with constraints like Irregular supply of electricity and Non availability of storage facilities, majority of turmeric growers (50.56%) faced with constraints like Inadequate availability of improved seed, turmeric growers (40.00%) faced with constraints like High wages of labour, (38.89%) turmeric growers faced with constraints like Inadequate sources of finance for agriculture and (22.22%) turmeric growers faced with constraints like Inadequate availability of FYM.