AN ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF GUM GUAR IN NORTH EASTERN KARNATAKA
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2018-07-30
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES RAICHUR - 584 104
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Gum guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.)Taub) is commonly known as Cluster bean. Gum guar is recently introduced in North Eastern Karnataka on experimental basis in view of occurrence of intermittent and early drought in the region. In this study, gum guar is considered as an alternate crop to pigeonpea and cotton. This study was undertaken with an overall objective of analyzing the feasibility of production and marketing of gum guar in NEK region. In addition, the study analyzed the production potentiality of gum guar, its export performance and constraints faced by the farmers in production and marketing, processing of gum guar into its derivatives.
The study is confined to four districts of the NEK region including Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Raichur and Koppal. Multistage sampling technique was employed to select the sample respondents. The farmers cultivating gum guar, pigeon pea and cotton each numbering 60 totally adds up to 180 constitute the sample size for the study. The collected data on cost and returns of selected crops is confined to the production year 2013-14. The results highlighted that the application of chemical fertilizers and plant protection chemicals was quite less in gum guar in comparison with pigeonpea and cotton, respectively. The total cost of cultivation of gum guar was quite less with 28,354 per hectare in comparison with 42,052 and 68,275 per hectare, in pigeonpea and cotton, respectively. The cultivation of gum guar requires 56.40 and 159.62 per cent lesser variable cost in comparison with pigeonpea and cotton, respectively. Similarly, gum guar requires 13.77 and 60.44 per cent lesser fixed cost in comparison with pigeonpea and cotton, respectively. The yield of gum guar was 132.59 and 300.44 per cent lesser in comparison with pigeonpea and cotton, respectively. This has resulted in lower return per rupee of investment of 0.50 in gum guar in comparison with 1.06 and 1.21 in pigeonpea and cotton, respectively. The gum guar grown by the farmers was marketed mainly through two marketing channels. The producer’s share in consumer’s rupee was higher in channel-I with 35.84 per cent in comparison with 35.34 per cent in channel-II. Relatively higher producer’s share in consumer’s rupee in channel-I was mainly attributed to better price offered by the private agencies in comparison with stockiest in channel-I. The transition probability matrix for gum guar exports revealed that USA, Other countries category, Germany, Russia, China P Rp, Canada and United Kingdom were the stable markets for Indian gum guar. The market share projections of Indian gum guar exports to the major importing countries during 2017-18 and 2018-19 has shown an increasing export trend to USA alone. Therefore, among the stable markets for Indian gum guar exports, India should rely on USA for its exports in the next two years due to encouragement of oil drilling in USA. The study has suggested few policy implications for improving the production potentiality of gum guar in NEK region.
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