Vol. 10, Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
Dr. VS Tekale, MC Bhagat and Dr. Vidya V Tayde

Abstract:
The present study on constraints faced by vegetable growers in adoption of vegetable production practices was conducted in Nagpur district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state by employing exploratory design were used with 120 respondents. The respondents were selected randomly from two tahsils namely Nagpur and Mauda in Nagpur district. The findings were revealed that high adoption gap and less production of vegetables in studied area as reported by the respondents were fluctuation in market rates (97.50), followed by high wages of labour (89.16%), low rates of vegetables (80.83%) and non-availability of labours at the time of vegetable cultivation practices (72.50%) and these were ranked as I^st, II^nd, III^rd and IV^th respectively. In this case labour constraints and marketing constraints were the major constraints faced by the great majority of respondents. The 71.67 per cent of respondents were faced the constraints non availability of recommended variety seeds, followed by problems in identification of diseases and pests (47.50%) and these were ranked V^th and VI^th respectively. The 43.33 per cent of respondents were reported that, non-availability of good quality FYM and non-availability of electric supply for irrigation were the major constraints by them which had combined rank VII^th. The 39.16 per cent of the respondents were faced constraints non availability of vegetable processing and preservation units, followed by lack of knowledge about latest vegetable production technology (37.50%) and these were ranked as VIII^th and IX^th respectively.