Manmeet KaurGurvinder Singh2016-10-062016-10-062014http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/80184The study entitled “A study on the status, prospects and problems of summer mungbean cultivation in Punjab state” was undertaken with the objectives to study the present status, prospects and problems of summer mungbean cultivation. Seventy farmers were selected from five clusters on the basis of highest concentration of mungbean growing area. Findings of the study revealed that most of the respondents were in the age group of 38-49 years, educated up to graduation, had medium operational land holding (10-25 acres), had 2-3 family members engaged in summer mungbean cultivation and medium mass media exposure. The experience of more than half of the farmers in summer mungbean cultivation was 2-6 years. Most of the farmers were presently cultivating summer mungbean on an area of 0.5-5.5 acres and following summer mungbean-basmati rice-wheat crop rotation. Majority of the sample farmers cultivated summer mungbean to earn additional income, and were cleaning and drying the summer mungbean produce so as to add value to it. About half of the farmers were willing to keep the area constant under summer mungbean cultivation. The findings of the study showed that farmers were interested in incrementing their produce for value addition as against their present status. Amongst the five different problem areas of summer mungbean cultivation, production related problems ranked first followed by storage and marketing, value addition and processing. On the basis of the findings and farmers suggestions, it was suggested that seeds of recommended varieties should be made easily available to farmers and machinery for value addition of summer mungbean should be subsidized through cooperative societies to promote the cultivation of this crop.enmungbean cultivationSummer mungbeanmungbeanThesis