Ginger cultivation in lower Dibang valley and lohit regions of Arunachal Pradesh: Household income, saving and investment

India meets about 50 percent of the global demand of ginger. Commercial crop-ginger is produced mostly in Kerala, Orissa, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Assam etc, in India. Far in the East of India is the land of ecstasy called Arunachal Pradesh wherein, large scale commercial ginger cultivation set motion firstly in Lower Dibang Valley and then Lohit regions in the early 1990s. In fact, commercial ginger cultivation has been providing great scope for employment to the local youths, businessmen and general populace culminates to economic self-dependency. It is guiding the regions toward better socio-economic state of affairs. Interestingly, average ginger cultivators of the region have earned Net income of Rs 2,03,744 annually throughout the study period between 2002 to 2010. Moreover, the average sample ginger cultivators during the present study period saved total amount of Rs 8,46,595 with an annual average saving of Rs 84,659.5.

With this background, the present study makes an attempt to study status of household income, saving and investment made by ginger cultivators of the study area.