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- Title
Cost of Production of Grape in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu.
- Authors
Babybowna, R.; Veerachamy, P.
- Abstract
Agricultural play an important role in Indian economy. It offers more employment, i.e., 70 percent. India has achieved the highest productivity of 20 tones per hectare in the production of grapes. Grape is a component in wine, juice, squash, syrup, jam, jelly, vinegar, pickles, chocolates, tartaric acid, oil, cattle feed, tannin, etc. However, the processed products, viz., wine, raisins and grape juice are the most popular products from grapes all over the world. The commercial production of grape commenced only after the import of varieties like Thomson seedless, Kishmish, Chorni, Beauty seedless, etc. These seedless varieties overtook the seeded varieties production tremendously. Currently grape cultivation in India has reached to the extent of 50000 ha, with an annual production of 10-12 lac metric tons. Out of the total production, 87% of the produce is consumed as table grape while 10% is dried and produced for raisin, two percent for juice and one percent for wine. Dindigul is one of the most important grape producing districts in Tamil Nadu. The district's soil and climatic conditions are highly suitable for grape cultivation. Hence, grape cultivation has increased spontaneously with an area of 1195 hectares in 1996-97 to 1709 hectares in 2003-04 and 2684 hectares in 2009-2010. Therefore, this paper attempts to analyse determinants of grape production, factors affecting the grape cultivation and also suggests how to improve the productivity of grape in the study areas. The study found that in the case of farmers cultivating High Yielding Varieties, r value indicated 78.41 percent of variation in yield caused by five explanatory variables. Labour cost, fertilizer, pesticides and capital flows were found to be statistically significant at 5 per cent level. The capital flows had a greater influence on the determination of yield, by the variables such as labour cost, fertilizer and pesticides.
- Subjects
INDIA; VITIS vinifera; INDIAN economy; AGRICULTURE; LABOR costs; CAPITAL movements; COMMERCIAL products; HIGH Yielding Varieties Programme
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 5, p34
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article