A Study on Production and Marketing of Rice Cultivation in Vizianagaram District of Andhra Pradesh, India
S. Shrine *
Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural College, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Bapatla- 522 101, India.
G. Sunil Kumar Babu
National Commission for Scheduled Castes Jurisdiction, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, GOI, India.
R. Asha
Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural College, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Bapatla- 522 101, India.
A. Pavani
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Agriculture College, Bapatla, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The production and marketing of rice cultivation have been studied in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh during 2018-19. Tools such as costs and returns, marketing margins, input use efficiency, marketing margins and price spread were used for the study. The results have shown that the Benefit-Cost ratiois 1.05. The input use efficiency has shown a negative significance for chemical fertilizers,pesticides and seed rate. The price spread analysis has shown that the producers receive 27% of the consumer price. Marketing margin for the adopted marketing channel was worked out by comparing the prices prevailing at each stage of marketing. Since used prices were related to a particular point of time and as small concurrent margins were also worked out.
Keywords: Rice cultivation, rice production, rice marketing, benefit-cost, Vizianagaram.