National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Groundnut is important oilseed crop in world and India also. The oil content depends on agro-climatic condition containing 44-50% oil. The study was conducted to understand the nature of the marketing channels, marketing costs, market margins and price spread groundnut in Solapur district of Maharashtra. The data base consists of producer, wholesalers, and retailers of groundnut from whom primary data were collected by personal interviews with the help of pre tested schedule during 2019-20. Three marketing channels were identified in case of groundnut i.e. I) Producer-Consumer. II) Producer-Retailer-Consumer, III) Producer-Wholesaler-Retailer-Consumer). Per farm total production of groundnut was 26.32 qtl/ha. Out of the total production 1.001 qtl was retained for family consumption and left was marketed through different channels. Marketing cost for each channel was also calculated. Marketing Channel I was most efficient with Rs. 52.75 price spread and producer share in consumer rupee was 95.55 per cent. Price spread for channel- III was higher rather than other intermediaries.
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