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 |
The study revealed that high susceptibility towards insect-pests and disease such as aphid insect, black spot and bacterial blight disease were observed most common and major production problems for both contract (73.33%) and non-contract farmers (77.78%); however, less number of contact farmers were facing these problems. This was mainly due to a proper guidance about the various cultivation and management practices provided by the parent company field executive officers (FEO) during the potato seed production. Whereas cut weight of produce (53.3 %) rejection of produce (37.78 %) in case of contract farmers, lower price of produce (75.56 %), high marketing cost (71.11 %), lack of proper marketing facilities (57.78 %), high storage charges (51.11%) in case of non-contract farmers, lack of credit facilities both in contract (40 %) as well as non-contract farmers (51.11 %) were observed marketing related problems in the study area. In nutshell, the potato seed production was found to be profitable with the adoption of contract farming due to the remunerative price as well as proper guidance about the various cultivation and management practices provided by the parent companies’ field executive officers (FEO) during the potato seed production which reduced yield and price uncertainty. Therefore, use of contract farming needs to be expanded among all the potato seed growers.
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