An analysis of production and marketing trends of major cereals crop with special reference to wheat and paddy in Kanpur Dehat District of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

The present study entitled AN ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTION AND MARKETING, TRENDS OF MAJOR newlineCEREALS CROPS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WHEAT AND PADDY WAS CONDUCTED IN newlineTHE AKBARPUR BLOCK, OF DISTRICT KANPUR DEHAT in 2021-22 with the objective of finding newlinesocio economic of the study area, production and trends of the cereals, their marketing and consequences faced newlineby the selected respondents. Wheat and paddy are considered as major staple food for the folks of the Uttar newlinePradesh and this was the major reason that why we had selected the topic. All the necessary data were obtained newlinefrom the respondents with the enclosed questionnaire by personal interview. The tools used in our research for newlineanalyzing the data were Tabular analysis for socio economic, different cost concept for production of cereals, newlineAnnual growth rate analysis for trends, price spread for marketing and garrets ranking for constraints. After newlineour study we found that in socio economic except cast, educational qualification, and occupation all the newlineparameters were found to be statistically non-significant. And in case of economics of production of wheat and newlinepaddy we found that the highest b:c ratio was 2.80 and 1.74 for medium farmer group respectively. It can be newlineclearly observed that the economics of wheat was found to be higher than the economics of the paddy. And in newlinecase of trends of cereal production we found uneven pattern of increasing and decreasing due to the adverse newlineclimatic condition and locust attack during the study period. In case of marketing the price spread for wheat newlinefrom channel I, II and III were found to be 1.05, 1.43 and1.63 respectively. And total marketing cost was minimally newlineobtained in the Channel I, and price spread for paddy was found to be 1.17, 3.34 and 3.94 for channel I, II and newlineChannel III and the minimal marketing cost was observed Channel I with 15.25. Garret s ranking was used to newlinegive rank based on severity of their occurrence and how they affect the decision-making power of the newlinerespondents. Among different constraints ava