An Economic Analysis of Post Harvest Losses Marketing and Export Potentials of Banana in Allahabad District of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

At the eve of 2020, India is witnessing and extraordinary trend in growth of in the art and newlinescience of growing the fruit and vegetable readily called as horticultural science. The escalating newlinetendency of exploring various innovative means and sources for technological adoptions, new newlineexport drifts towards investigating non-conventional fruit and vegetable international markets, newlinehave let India to mark its sign on the map of world when the primary sector prosperity is newlineconcerned. Adding to it, horticulture being more remunerative in production and processing newlinefunction, more income per unit area, provides to be a useful tool for poverty eradication by either newlinediversification or extensive verified adoption of cropping system. But the hindrance remains newlinealways the same, lower infrastructural availability to reduce post harvest losses and longer newlinemarketing channels along with smaller warehouse capacity. newlineThis study is undertaken in a newly discovered area under banana cultivation, Kaurihar newlineand Phulpur which are close to the Kaushambi district and part of Prayagraj ( formerly newlineAllahabad) district with a sample of 135 farmers where marginal, small and large farmers in newlinenumeral ratio of 73:38:24 respectively. The cost of cultivation of banana in for different farm newlinegroups for marginal, medium and large groups the cost of cultivation is Rs 186610, Rs newline184546.40.6 and Rs 183053.6 respectively. For the average sample the cost of fertilizer and plant newlineprotection charges averaging with 31800 and 17276.67 rupees per hectare. As far wastage is newlineconcerned, Channel III is being the longest channel accounted 10.8 per cent quantity losses newlineduring transit and carriage. Losses due to maturity processes accounted up to 6.77 and overall newlinesummed up for 16.73 per cent wastage at various level involved at retailers position. The price newlinespread was found to be 70.00 rupees in channel I, in channel II the spread was 1700 and channel newlineIII it was estimated to be 3330 which on an average gives 1700 rupees of price spread in banana newline newlinemarketing. The efficiency is hi