Production and marketing of Banana crop in Vaishali district of Bihar
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mishra, R.R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kumari, Suman | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-05T06:12:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-05T06:12:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present study aim at studying the production and marketing of banana in vaishali district of Bihar, both primary and secondary data formed the base of the study. Primary data were collected from 100 banana growers, located in five randomly selected villages of purposively selected Bidupur block and Hajipur block of Vaishali district. The respondents were grouped into four size categories Viz. marginal, small, medium and large farmers based on their size of holding. The secondary data were collected from various published and unpublished sources. The data related to area, production and productivity of banana crop were collected for the period of 2006 – 07 to 2015 – 16. For detailed analysis the whole period was divided into two sub periods i.e. period I (2006-07 to 2011-12) and period II (2011-12 to 2015 -16). The study was designed with the main objective of estimating the costs involved in banana cultivation and returns from banana production. Significant positive growth in area production and productivity of banana in Bihar was observed during the overall period 2006-07 to 2015 -16, The area under banana increased at the rate of 0.96 per cent per annum and 0.84 per cent per annum in period I and period II for the state of Bihar. Growth in productivity of banana registered an increasing trend during period II but it decreased at the rate of -0.75 per cent during period I. Growth of production of banana also showed increasing trend production of banana increases at the rate of 2.97 per cent and 0.08 per cent per annum in period I and period II respectively. The growth in area, production and productivity of banana exhibited almost similar trend in area case of Vaishali district. But production (-2.13 per cent) and productivity (-2.54 per cent) decreased during period II probably because of infestation of viral disease are „fusarium wilt and panama wilt. It was observed that total cost of cultivation for marginal, small, medium and large banana grower was RS.129244, Rs. 126103, Rs. 135937 and Rs. 142114 respectively. On an average 55.00 of banana was produced on one hectare of land. The same time no. of banana was 4518. Gross income from per hectare of banana cultivation was estimated at 423694 Rs./ha and net return was 290544 Rs. per hectare. Cost of production of banana fruits was calculated at Rs. 221.0/ qtls. Cost of production of sucker was estimated at Rs.2.60 per suckers. Cost benefit ratio on an average was found out to be 1:3.17 About 98.46 per cent of produce was found to be marketable surplus in banana. Three marketing channels were identified for marketing of banana in the study area. The channels were, channel -1 (Producer – village trader – wholesaler –Retailer – Consumer), channel –II (Producer – wholesaler – Retailer – consumer) and channel –III (Producer – v8illage trader – wholesaler – consumer). Out of three channels channel – I was observed to be most important channel as more than ( 78.11 per cent) of produce was disposal off through channel I and remaing (73.50 per cent ) of produce was marketed through this channel III, than that channel – II ( 71.78 per cent ) channel –I (67.06 per cent). The marketing efficiency of channel – I, channel – II and channel – III was observed to be 1.16, 1.46 and 1.50, respectively. It indicated that marketing channel – III operated more efficiency in comparison with channel –II and channel –I. On an average cultivation of banana generated 149.64 man days per hectare per year. Out of that 102.23 man days i.e. (68.39 per cent) was claimed by male labours whereas 47.41 man days (31.69 per cent) was share of female labours. Operation wise analysis of the number of man days generated in cultivation of banana indicated that male labours played a dominant role in activities like land preparation, irrigation, ear thing -up, spraying of plant protection chemicals, fencing and harvesting. On the other hand female labours had a larger share in employment in weeding of banana (72.78 per cent) and a substantial share (46.98 per cent) in fertilizer application. However, male labours had also a substantial share (32.81 man days per hectare) employment generated in pit digging. The major constraints in production of banana were inadequate amount of rainfall during summer season, incidence of viral diseases and damage of crop due to high wind velocity. In the marketing of banana, farmers face the problems such as location of markets far away from farm, frequent fluctuation in prices of banana about prices of banana in different markets intermediaries and delays in payment after sale etc. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810142506 | |
| dc.keywords | Agriculture, Economics, Production, Banana, Marketing, Vaishali, | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 72p. + v (References) + i-vii (Appendices) | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur (Bihar) | en_US |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Economics | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Production and marketing of Banana crop in Vaishali district of Bihar | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Production and marketing of Banana crop in Vaishali district of Bihar | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |