DAS, R.LAIRENJAM, ZED2022-02-262022-02-262017-07https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810182916The present study was conducted in the Thoubal block under the Thoubal district of Manipur during the agricultural year 2015 – 16. It was designed to investigate the cost of production, income and employment generation along with their advantages over growing competing crops and also to identify the major problems confronted by the vegetable growers. Simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of 100 respondent farmers that comprise of 56 small (4 Ha). Both primary and secondary data were collected for the study. The study revealed that the average land holdings of farmer varied from 1.41 hectare in small to 4.28 hectare in large farm. The cost of cultivation per hectare for the selected major Rabi vegetable was observed to be as high as ₹1,64,047.86 in pea to as low as ₹1,06,545.81 in brinjal. Relatively, it was also found that the gross and net return from the cultivation of pea was the highest with corresponding values of ₹ 3,59,328.66 and ₹ 1,95,280.81 respectively. The lowest gross return and net return was worked out in the case of potato with corresponding values of ₹ 1,50,187.43 and ₹ 33,398.05 respectively. The study further reveals that the per hectare utilization of labour and generation of net income from the selected vegetables were much higher than those of competing crops. The utilization of labour was recorded maximum in the case of brinjal (113.56 MD) and minimum in mustard (40.67 MD). Regarding net income, pea still holds the most profitable crop and lowest in the case of mustard with ₹ 27,685.51. Among the production problems encountered by the farmers, high cost of inputs received maximum response from 83.35 per cent of the respondent farmers. And under the marketing front, the major problem encountered was found to be lack of cold storage with maximum response of 90.45 per cent while transportation problem was responded minimum of 45.18 per cent.EnglishThesis