|
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 present study is based on economic analysis of coriander production and marketing with the objective to work out the cost and return and marketing pattern of coriander in the study area. The study was conducted in 15 villages of 2 blocks of Mungeli district of Chhattisgarh state. The major finding of this study revealed that, on an average, the cost of cultivation of coriander was calculated as Rs.24397.49 per hectare and which showed an increasing trend from marginal to large farms and average input-output ratio was observed to be 1:2.65, whereas, input-output ratio was showing increasing trend from marginal to large farms in the production of coriander. Two marketing channels were prevailing in marketing of coriander, in the study area viz., Channel-I: Producer - Village merchant- Consumer, Channel-II: Producer - Consumer (village market). And an average marketable surplus of coriander was 85.21 per cent to total production.