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ThesisItem Open Access AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF MAJOR CROPS IN BILASPUR DISTRICT OF CHHATTISGARH STATE(Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, 2019) Soni, Satyanarayan; Tegar, Ajay; Chandrakar, M.R.; Sharma, Geet; Chaure, N.K.An attempt has been made to undertaken AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF MAJOR CROPS IN BILASPUR DISTRICT OF CHHATTISGARH STATE the specific objectives of the study were 1) To analyze the pattern of growth in area, production and productivity of major crops in study area. 2) To work out the cost and returns of major crops in study area. 3) To examine the marketing pattern of major crop in study area. 4) To identify the constraints in production and marketing of major crops and suggest remedial measures to overcome them.The study was conducted in Takhatpur and Bilha blocks in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh state. 150 farmers were selected randomly from 4 villages from these blocks for the study. The study was based on both primary as well as secondary data. The scheduled caste, scheduled tribes, other backward caste and general caste consists 18 per cent, 34.00 per cent, 35 per cent, and 13 per cent, respectively of the total sampled farmers. The overall highest cropped area is found to be high during the Kharif season at 50.59 per cent. The overall percentage of irrigated area is 66.04 per cent to the total cultivated land. Tube well was the main and most used source of irrigation for all categories of respondents. The overall cropping intensity was 151.46 per cent at sampled respondent’s households. The growth rate in area, production and productivity of paddy in previous fifteen years are 0.25 per cent, 4.96 per cent and 5.20 per cent, in wheat -4.10 per cent, -3.49 per cent and 1.41 per cent and in chickpea -16.76 per cent, -16.78 per cent and 1.18 per cent which indicate the growth rate of paddy is highest compare to wheat and chickpea due to economic profit in paddy than wheat and chickpea and also indicates after 2008-09 agriculture year the area and production of wheat and chickpea were decreasing due to area of production replaced by paddy crop. The overall cost of production of paddy wheat and chickpea are Rs 34669, Rs 23871.53 and Rs 19587.20 which is increasing from marginal to large farm size. The overall production and per quintal price was worked out as 13.31 quintal per ha and Rs.3,500 per quintal for chickpea respectively in study area. The overall production and per quintal price was worked out as 26.45 quintal per ha and Rs.1675 per quintal for wheat respectively in study area. The overall production and per quintal price was worked out as 51.88 quintal per ha and Rs. 2050 per quintal for paddy respectively in study area. The overall value of gross income, net income, cost per quintal per hectare came to Rs. 1,06,354 per ha., Rs. 74,836.54 per ha., Rs. 607.51 per ha in paddy, Rs. 44,303.75 per ha, Rs. 22,602.36 per ha for wheat crop and Rs. 46,576.25, Rs. 28,769.70, Rs. 1338.08 respectively. In study area three marketing channels of wheat and chickpea crop were identified as Channel- I: Producer- Consumer, Channel-II: Producer-village trader-wholesaler-retailer-consumer and Channel-III: Producer-Retailer- Consumer. Three marketing Channels of paddy crop were observed in the study area as Channel- I: Producer- Primary agricultural co-operatives societies (PACS), Channel-II: Producer- Village trader- wholesaler, Channel-III: Producer- Wholesaler. In study area marketable surplus of paddy, wheat and chickpea is 95.96 per cent, 96.07 per cent and 97.69 per cent. In study the constraints identified as major problem for financial problem was viewed as a major constraint by the major crop growers (100 per cent) in the study area. In view of this, there is a need to educate the major crops famer on using good and bold seeds for sowing, treating the seeds with fungicides, Captan or Thiram at the rate of 4g/kg of seed and inoculating seed besides making them available in the study area at proper time by the agriculture and extension department. Lack of sufficient soil testing facilities was also a major constraint as about 95.45 per cent crops growers faced this problem. An immediate step should be taken at the level of government to establish soil testing labs at Panchayat level in order to estimate and apply appropriate doses of fertilizers in the major crop. This step will reduce the cost of cultivation on one side and will improve the soil fertility on the other side.