Economics of turmeric(Curcuma longa Linn.) in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya / (Record no. 3998)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 04107nam a2200205Ia 4500
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field OSt
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20220103114158.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 130502s9999 xx 000 0 und d
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency CPGS
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.173830954164
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Papang, Janailin
9 (RLIN) 806
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Economics of turmeric(Curcuma longa Linn.) in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Janailin Papang
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Umiam:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc CPGS, CAU,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent [26], 59p.:
Other physical details ill., some col.;
440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title [Agricultural Economics, School of Social Sciences]
9 (RLIN) 807
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Turmeric (C. longa L.) is a member of the Zingiberaceae family and it is used for its culinary, dying, medicinal and pharmaceutical properties. Cultivation of turmeric is one of the most important sources of livelihood especially for the female farmers in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya. The present study was conducted in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya in order to work out the economics of turmeric with the specific objectives of estimating the cost of cultivation, to work out the resource use efficiency, to study the marketing system and to identify the major constraints both in production and marketing of turmeric and to suggest suitable measures. Multi stage sampling was used to select the sample, the total sample constitute of 80 farmers and 40 market intermediaries, thus making a total of 120 respondents The cost concepts given by Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) viz., Cost A?, A?, B?, B? C? and C? were used to work out the cost of cultivation. Cobb-Douglas production function was used to establish the functional relationship of turmeric production with its various input use. Marketing channels were identified and the price spread, producer's share in consumer's rupee was worked out. Garrett's ranking technique was used to analyze the major constraints faced by the farmers and market functionaries. It was found that average yield of turmeric was 14.73q/ha (dry produced). The total cost of cultivation was estimated to be ` 77,013/ha. Seed constitute the maximum variable cost and it shares 46.81 % of the total cost of cultivation. Gross income of ` 83,487/ha was obtained from cultivation of fresh turmeric, and ` 1,17,840/ha was obtained from production of dried turmeric. The net income of turmeric cultivation was estimated at ` 6,474/ha for fresh turmeric and ` 28,092/ha for dried turmeric with an additional expenditure of `12,735 on post-harvest management. Thus, it was observed that farmers obtained higher net income on selling of dried turmeric and the additional net income was worked out to be ` 21,618/ha. The cost of production per quintal of fresh, dried, and powdered turmeric was `1,568/q, ` 6,093/q and `7,017/q respectively. The results of Cobb- Douglas analysis revealed that the regression co-efficient of land and manures, fertilizers and plant protection chemicals were significant. Regression co-efficient for human labour was negative and non-significant. An increase in expenditure on manure, fertilizer and plant protection chemicals would result in improving the production of turmeric. There is no scope of increasing production by adding more human labour. The value of R� was found to be 0.99. Seed constitute 36.71 % of the total production while the family consumption was 0.20% of the total production. The marketable and marketed surplus was found to be 63.08% and 60.56% to the total production respectively. In Jaintia Hills district, three major marketing channels were identified; Channel III was the most used channel as the farmers transacted 57% of their marketable surplus through this channel. Among the various problems faced by the farmers, the most serious problem in production of turmeric was lack of knowledge about pest control, where as high price fluctuation was the major problem of marketing faced by farmer. The most serious problem of market intermediaries was unavailability of proper storage facilities.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Turmeric
General subdivision Production
Geographic subdivision Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya
9 (RLIN) 808
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Tripathi, A.K.
Relator term Major Advisor
9 (RLIN) 809
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type MSc Thesis
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     School of Social Sciences CPGS CPGS 02/05/2013   338.173830954164 PAP TH045 24/01/2020 02/05/2013 MSc Thesis
CPGS-AS Library : All rights reserved , 2020.
Implemented & Customized by: BestBookBuddies

Powered by Koha