Cost Benefit Analysis and Marketing of Brinjal Vegetable in Bhandara District

Asian Resonance(P: ISSN No. 0976-8602 RNI No.UPENG/2012/42622 VOL.-IV, ISSUE-IV, October-2015 E: ISSN No. 2349-9443)

Abstract

 R.R. Meshram 

Student, Deptt. of Agricultural Economics and Statistics Section, College of Agriculture, Nagpur


N.V. Shende 

Associate Professor, Deptt. of Agricultural Economics and Statistics Section, College of Agriculture, Nagpur


S.D. Kathale 

Student, Deptt. of Agricultural Economics and Statistics Section, College of Agriculture, Nagpur

The present study “Cost Benefit analysis and Marketing of Brinjal vegetable in Bhandara district.” For this 40 vegetable growers, and 10 village trader, wholesalers, retailers were selected in the study area. The data were collected with the help of specially tested schedule by personal interview method, using multistage random sampling method for the year 2013-14. The twenty villages of four tahsils viz., Bhandara, Tumsar, Mohadi and Lakhni of Bhandara district were selected for the study. The study revealed that the cost of cultivation per hectare for Brinjal over the cost C2 was found 79346.71 Rs./ha. The net return over cost-C2 was found to 75545.39 Rs./ha. for Brinjal. The B:C ratio over cost A2; which is known as available cost was found to 3.60 for Brinjal. However the B:C ratio over C2 i.e. cost of cultivation was 1.95 for Brinjal. It represent that vegetable cultivation is a profitable venture. The resource use efficiency was estimated by Cobb-Douglas production function. It revealed that R2 found for Brinjal was 0.845. The study identified for different marketing channel for Brinjal vegetable. It shown that Channel-I i.e. Producer to Consumer was best channel for marketing for selected vegetable. However very less quantity of produce sold through this Channel. The price spread for Brinjal in all selected Channel, except Channel-I was around 40 per cent. The marketing efficiency was worked out with three different method viz; Conventional method, Shepherd method and Acharya method. It reveal that efficiency was decline with increase in number of intermediaries. The different constraints were identified during production and marketing of Brinjal vegetable. The damage due to insect and pest was the major constraint in vegetable cultivation followed by lack of skilled labour, irregular supply of electricity, low level of crop production, insufficient irrigation etc. whereas arbiterory charges by market intermediaries was the major constraint in marketing of Brinjal.

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