Preferability and Profitability in the Farm Input Purchase by the Curry Leaf Growers in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 3
Abstract
Increasing eagerness of farmers to attain profitability in the farming, make them to purchase the farm inputs from the cheapest sources. Curry leaf (Murrayakoeniji) is the commercial spice crops of Tamil Nadu with the area of 2933 hectares (India stat) and 58.6 lakh tonnes (India stat). The present study was undertaken to study different categories of market oriented growers’ preferability towards profitable source for the farm input purchase. The four different marketing sources were identified in the preliminary survey. The profitable Index for the farm input purchase was developed to identify which categories of market oriented growers opt for cheapest sources for farm inputs. The results revealed that (72.50%) of international market and (60.00%) powder making unit linked growers preferred cheaper sources for farm inputs purchase, while oil extraction unit and domestic market linked growers preferred costlier sources for the input purchase.
Authors and Affiliations
Sruthi Mahalakshmi P, Mahandrakumar K, Puspha J
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