Trends in Biosciences
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 18

Problems of Vegetable Growers in Marketing and Production in Akola District

  • Author:
  • N.S. Nandeshwar1, P.S. Gudadhe2, P.M. Tayade3
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 4981 to 4983

1Dept. of Agril. Economics and Statistics, ANCA, Warora

2Horticulture Dept., S.G.I. College of Agiculture, Jalgaon, Jamod

3Dept. of Agril. Economics and Statistics, PGI, VNMKV, Parbhani

Online published on 16 February, 2017.

Abstract

Vegetables play a vital role in nourishment of human beings. Vegetable cultivation is one of the important source of farm income. But vegetables growers has so many problems in marketing and production such as high input cost, transportation, perishable nature of vegetables, price fluctuation etc. Problems faced by selected vegetable growers while marketing of vegetables were uncertainty of prices was main problems overall percent was 67.44 per cent then high commission rate, adequate storage facilities and in production overall percentage was 62.44 per cent next problems were losses due to climatic changes, high wage rate, labour problem.

Keywords

Vegetables, marketing, production, problems, farmers