PRODUCTION, DOMESTIC AND EXPORT TRADE OF GINGER – A STUDY IN KARNATAKA
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41534
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University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Bangalore
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Ginger has a long and well documented history of both culinary and medicinal use throughout the World, especially in Chinese, Indian and Japanese medicinal care. It is being cultivated in India for both as fresh vegetable and as a dried spice, since time immemorial. The present study is a modest attempt to analyse the economics of production and marketing of ginger and the constraints in production and marketing of ginger in Chikmagalur district of Karnataka. In addition, the study also examines the trend in export trade of ginger from India. The results indicated that the per acre cost of cultivation of ginger was found to be Rs. 1,86,375.52; out of which variable costs and fixed costs accounted for Rs. 1,83,514.97 (98.47 %) and Rs. 2860.55 (1.53 %) respectively. The share of material costs (55.29 %) was more than that of the labour costs (33.60 %). The rhizome cost was the highest among the material costs followed by plant protection chemicals. Among the labour costs, expenditure incurred towards weeding and weedicide application was the highest followed by land preparation and bedding. All the sample ginger growers sold their produce to village merchants. About 54 per cent of the marketed quantity reached distant markets. The quantity of ginger exported registered a compound annual growth rate of -3.13 while the value of ginger exported exhibited an increasing trend with a compound growth rate of 5.23 for the period 1996-97 to 2011-12. The major importers of Indian ginger were Bangladesh, USA, UAE and Saudi Arabia.