Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
A Bharath Chandra, NT Bagde, MS More, AB Kayarwar and RA Ansari

Abstract:
The present study was conducted to understand the behaviour of arrivals and prices of potato in APMC, Nagpur. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the major non-cereal food crops. The vegetable basket of Indians is almost incomplete without potato. Potato is highly nutritious than the regular rice and wheat but its nature of high perishability, seasonal production etc., made the crop highly sensitive to price fluctuations. In the present study, the secondary data on arrivals and prices of potato for a period of ten years i.e., from 2012-13 to 2021-22 were obtained from Agmark.net and processed to analyse the trends, growth rate and seasonal behaviour of potato crop in APMC, Nagpur. The trend analysis revealed that, both the prices and arrivals had followed the cubic trend. The growth rate was analysed using compound growth rate and identified that the growth rate of arrivals over the period of study was negative (5.83 percent) and non-significant. In the month of October (over the years), the growth rate was negative (12.26 percent) and significant. In all other months the growth rate was negative and non-significant. The growth rate of prices was positive (3.36 percent) but non-significant and highest in the month of January (6.44 percent) which was non-significant. There exists seasonal behaviour in the arrivals and prices of potato from January to April. The arrivals started increasing in the month of January and continued till April whereas the prices started to drop from December and continued till March.