Open AccessAn assessment of constraints faced by sesame growing farmers in Kerala
Author(s) -
S. Sreepriya,
T. Girija
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
agriculture update/agricultural update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-6847
pISSN - 0973-1520
DOI - 10.15740/has/au/15.4/386-390
Subject(s) - threshing , ranking (information retrieval) , production (economics) , business , agricultural science , crop production , agriculture , identification (biology) , unavailability , agricultural economics , geography , mathematics , economics , computer science , statistics , biology , archaeology , machine learning , macroeconomics , botany
Identification of constraints and providing timely suggestions are important for sesame farmers in Kerala as the state has been witnessing a declining trend of the crop production. The study is concerned with the constraints faced by sesame growing farmers in Kerala. A field survey was conducted in three districts of Kerala viz., Alappuzha Kollam and Thrissur. Respondents included 30 farmers from each district. Garrett Ranking technique was used to rank the constraints faced in sesame production. As per the survey, high labour cost, excessive rain, drought, weed infestation, labour unavailability, pest and diseases, marketing problem, transportation, drying and threshing problem and storage problem were the constraints identified in the decreasing order of rank. Suggestions and methods to overcome the constraints were also provided.