Vol. 10, Special Issue 10 (2021)

To know the business performance of SHG, Gayatri Self Help Group of village Tawarbahara district Gariaband was selected purposively for the present study. The selected SHG was established on 2016. Selected SHG is mainly work on organic pesticides, in this project 12 workers/ members were work assigned. Under this project they were making three products of organic pesticides i.e. Agnastra, Brahmastra, Dravya jeevamrit.

Organic pesticides is environment friendly and can be obtained directly from nature. It is almost free of cost and no impact on human health, soil, animal, and plants. The Agnastra was produced in major amount i.e.50 percent and rest of the products like Brahmastra and Dravya jeevamrit were 30 and 20 percent respectively. The literacy rate of the members of SHG was 90%, the majority of respondents in the study area belonged to the age between 18-30 years and most of them were married (90 percent). The average input- output ratio of Agnastra, Brahmastra, Dravya jeevamrit, were 1:3.2, 1:2 and 1:6.5 respectively. Similarly VC ratio were found to be 0.31, 0.5, and 0.37 respectively. The business performance of products or organic pesticides Agnastra gives maximum profit followed by Brahmastra and Dravya jeevamrit. Overall net profit of Gayatri Self Help Group was found to be rupess 51146/ year from the different organic pesticides.