Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
SS Pachpute and RD Shelke

Abstract:
About 96 tomato growers were selected from eight villages from the list was stratified into two groups i.e. kharif 48 and rabi 48 of Latur district of Maharashtra for comparative study for the year of 2012-2013. In analytical techniques, tabular analysis was used. In case of socio-economic characteristics of tomato growers, it was observed that the average age of the kharif tomato grower was higher than the rabi tomato growers. In case of average family size of the rabi tomato grower was found to be slight higher as 5.82 persons than that of kharif grower 5.57 persons. Also educational level it was slightly higher as 2.84 score in rabi tomato grower than that of kharif tomato grower 2.52 score. It was observed that in kharif and rabi tomato farmers the average of occupation level 1.04, 1.09 score respectively. It was observed that investment on irrigation structure was higher in rabi tomato grower Rs. 274358.26 as compared to kharif tomato grower Rs. 241806.34. In case of cropping pattern, the gross cropped area was 4.58 hectares on kharif tomato growers where as the rabi tomato growers was 5.00 hectares. As far as cropping intensity is concerned, it was observed that the highest cropping intensity was 171.23 percent on rabi tomato grower followed by that of 169.00 percent on kharif tomato grower.