PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF SUGARCANE IN VISAKHAPATNAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
365 / 1176
Authors
-
R. ASHA*, G. SUNIL KUMAR BABU and T. SURYA TEJA
Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural College, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Bapatla- 522 101
Keywords:
Sugarcane, cost concepts, input use efficiency, price spreadAbstract
The production and marketing of sugarcane cultivation have been studied in Visakhapatnam district of
Andhra Pradesh during 2018-19. The results revealed that cost of cultivation was high for plant crop than the
ratoon farming with the benefit-cost ratio of 1.10 for plant crop and 1.30 for ratoon crop. Net income for the plant
crop was Rs.34735/- and Rs.41898/- for the ratoon. The coefficients human labour (0.73), manure (0.25) and
seed rate (0.39) were showing positive significant effect on output and plant protection chemicals (-0.08)
showing negative significant effect on output. The price spread analysis for the selected channel indicated that
the producer received 70.83 per cent of consumer’s price in channel 1 (sugar), 81.43% in channel 2 (jaggery).
Total marketing cost was highest for channel 1 (34.30%) than the channel 2 (18.80%). The index of marketing
efficiency was high for channel 2 i.e. 3.33 as compared to 1.06 for channel 1.
References
GoI. 2018. Agricultural Statistics at a Glance
-18. Directorate of Economics and
Statistics. Department of Agriculture and
Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture,
Government of India.
Chinnappa, B. 1998. Resource use, cost
structure and marketing of Sugarcane: a
case study of Karnataka. The Bihar
Journal of Agricultural Marketing. 6 (1):74-
Kavitha, M. 2014. Supply chain management
of jaggery in Anakapalle region of Andhra
Pradesh. M.Sc. Thesis submitted to
Professor Jaya Shankar Telangana State
Agricultural University, Rajendranagar,
Hyderabad.
Krishnakant, Siddharth, Prakash, Tripathi and
Meena, A. 2015. Cost of cultivation of
sugarcane crop in Meerut district of Uttar
Pradesh. International Journal of Forestry
and Crop Improvement. 6 (1):41-48.
Ogwang, H.J. 2009. Production and profitability
of sugarcane among Kinyaracane Outgrowers,
Masindi District. M.Sc. Thesis
submitted to Faculty of Agriculture,
Makerere University Research Repository,
Kampala, Uganda.
Peerzado, M.B., Jalbani, A.A., Mangan, T., Joyo,
M.A.A., Jingdong, L., Qurat, U., Memon, A
and Wagan, S.A. 2016. Economic
assessment of sugarcane production and
its marketing constraints in Sindh,
Pakistan. Journal of Marketing and
Consumer Research.29 (1):11-17.
Pusappa, K.N. 2013. Economics of sugarcane
cultivation in Andhra Pradesh. Ph.D.
Thesis submitted to Andhra University,
Visakhapatnam.
Rao, I.V.Y. R. 2017. Estimating the economic
efficiency in production and value chains
of jaggery in Andhra Pradesh, India. Indian
Journal of Agricultural Marketing. 31
(2):31-41.
Rao, I.V.Y.R and Babu, G.S.K. 2012. An
economic analysis of production and
marketing of Jaggery in Andhra Pradesh.
Indian Journal of Agricultural Marketing. 26
(2):54-63.
Rao, I.R. 2012. Efficiency, yield gap and
constraints analysis in irrigated vis-a-vis
rainfed Sugarcane in North Coastal Zone
of Andhra Pradesh. Plant Protection.
-2375.
Rao, K.P.C and Kumar, R. 2005. Production and
marketing scenarios of jaggery in India
with special reference to Andhra
Pradesh. Indian Journal of Agricultural
Marketing. 46 (4):39-43.
Shephard, R.W. 1970. Theory of cost and
production functions. Princeton University
Press, Princeton. 31 (3):721-723.
Downloads
Submitted
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The author owns the article's copyright until the article is accepted for publication. After acceptance, the author(s) assigns the article's copyright jointly to both the authors and the Publishers of the Journal of Research ANGRAU (ANGRAU) and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
