Mahendra Kumar Deshmukh and K.N.S. Banafar
Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi Krishi
Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh- 492012.
Email: deshmukh2020@gmail.com
Abstract: The present study was conducted in the Rajnandgaon districts of Chhattisgarh. The primary data were collected from randomly selected soybean growers of three soybean growing villages of Rajnandgaon block for the year 2006-07. Major constraints pertaining to cultivation of soybean were lack of irrigation facilities (76.67 per cent) followed by lack o f recommended package practices of crop (65.00 per cent) and lack of technical knowledge (61.67 per cent). Other constraints are lack of resources (58.33), lack of financing (51.67) and lack of HYV seed (45.00 per cent). Constraints in the marketing of soybean were lack of storage facilities (88.66) followed by lack of regulated and cooperative market (71.66 per cent) and small marketable surplus (66.66 per cent).Study suggested that the irrigation facilities are to be developed in the proper way so that farmers can adopt improved technologies with assured irrigation facilities. It is essential to adopt the production system approach of linking the production technology, credit and marketing of soybean as was done under Technology Mission of Oilseeds, to raise the production of soybean particularly.
Keywords: Constraints, Production, Marketing, Economics
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