Year: 2017 | Month: March | Volume 62 | Issue 1
Sustainable Financial Inclusion to the Marginalized through an Analysis of Marketed Surplus and Price Spread of Cauliflower in S. Chotanagpur
DOI:10.5958/0976-4666.2017.00040.7
Abstract:
The study was undertaken to analyse marketed surplus and price spread for Cauliflower in S. Chotanagpur of Jharkhand. Cluster sampling techniques were used to select the sample villages and respondents. Primary data were collected by personal interview of respondents. Simple statistical tools were employed to accomplish different objectives of the study. The marketed surplus of the medium category of farms have slightly higher surplus than marginal, large and small categories of farms. Their relative proportion was 94.84 per cent, 94.51 per cent, 94.49 per cent and 94.48 per cent respectively of the total production. The share of the producer in consumer rupee is high in the channel were there are less number of intermediaries. The marketing cost incurred by the wholesaler in different channels were estimated 5.01 per cent, 6.39 per cent and 7.88 per cent of the consumer price respectively and their corresponding net margins were 9.68 per cent, 9.61 per cent and 10.23 per cent of the price paid by the consumer.
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