Vol. 12, Special Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Taniya Dhruw, Dr. Anil Divya and Dr. VK Choudhary

Abstract:
An effort has been made in the study "An Economic Analysis of Production and Marketing of Cashew Nut in Bastar District of Chhattisgarh State" In the Bastar district, two blocks Jagdalpur and Bakawand have been chosen based on their cashew nut production and area potential. Six villages out of the specified blocks were chosen on purpose to meet the study's goals. A total of 60 farmers were included in the sample. Further the respondents were marginal, small, medium, and large cashew nut farmers. to examine the major objectives, specifically to analyse the compound growth rate of area, production, and productivity of cashew nut in Bastar district and Chhattisgarh state, to workout the cost and returns of cashew nut in the study area, to examine the marketing pattern of cashew nut in the study area, and to find out the constraints. The study's findings showed that the percentage of male and female in the Bastar district's total family composition was 54.76 and 45.23. Schedule Tribe (ST) families had the highest caste-wise representation in the selected homes (43.33%). Regardless of school level, 89.23% of people were considered to be literate. During kharif, paddy was the primary crop grown by sample farmers in the research region. During kharif (39.14%), farmers allocated more land. Nearly 135.23% was determined to be the average cropping intensity. Additionally, the farms classified as overall, marginal, small, medium, and large farmers had cropping intensities of 142.35, 129.56, 140.14, and 127.42%, respectively. In the Bastar district and the state of Chhattisgarh, the rise in cashew nut area, production, and productivity was significant and measured at 2.66, 9.92, 7.06 and 4.45, 8.61, 3.98 respectively.