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Subject: Agricultural Extension Education × End date: 2017 × Start date: 2017 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Perception and prospect for implementation of foreign direct investment (FDI) in agricultural retail sector
    (CCSHAU, 2017) Rati Mukteshawar; Shehrawat, P.S.
    This study was conducted to create awareness towards FDI in agricultural retail sector. The study was conducted in two districts of Haryana state namely, Hisar and Sonipat and a total no. of two hundred forty respondents were selected and interviewed with the help of well-structured schedule. The study revealed that majority of the respondents were of middle age group (36-50 years), educated up to post graduate, belonged to a nuclear family up to five members, performed farming and other rhan farming had land holding up to 5 acres. The findings revealed that the overall awareness towards FDI in agricultural retail sector among the producers (20.06%), retailers (22.09%) and consumers (23.45%) were found low aware as per their responses. The study shows that producers (23.06%), retailers (28.16%) and consumers (28.47%) had low level of perception regarding FDI was found Major problems of respondents in conventional markets were ‘cost of cultivation increasing day by day (1.62), Lack of cold storage’ (1.21) and ‘Unavailability of agro-products in off-season’ (1.56) on other side in unconventional markets ‘Lack of awareness among producers’ (2.18) ‘Lack of awareness to market information’ (1.19) and Less or no availability of FDI stores’ (1.25) were found very serious problems with their weighted mean scores. Results pertaining overall prospects of FDI in agricultural retail sector was low. 23.45 percent in producers, Retailers had 28.47 percent and in consumers were found 19.27 percent.