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, frequency and percentage method was used.The result revealed that in general, tomato growers faced many problems like timely unavailability of labour, timely unavailability of fertilizers and particularly biopesticide HANPV, timely unavailability of loan, lack of technical knowledge about seed from public sector, unavailability of water at stress situation. It implied that the provision of labour through employment guarantee scheme by government, district administration should make necessary arrangement to get timely fertilizers to tomato grower and at the time of distribution 7/12 record compulsory for consumer of fertilizer, NABARD and other banks make the provision to supply credit availability at minimum interest and loan before start of season wise plantation of crop to farmer, arrange training by agricultural department and universities, use water conservation practices must be followed by ridges and furrows opening before planting means such protective measures were suggested by tomato growers in minimizing such problems.