Production and marketing of patato in Jaunpur district of U.P

Abstract

Potato is one of the most important crop of India and ranked fourth in total production in the world, India has third largest producer of the world in this way the potato used in every day of consumption district Jaunpur of U.P. state has significant importance in the economy. Multi stage purposive random sampling method were used in selection of district, block villages and respondents reason behind the selection of said things is higher concentration of potato growers present in Jaunpur. Cost of cultivation on various size group farmers like Marginal, Small, Medium and Large farms were observed and their production in rupees were 39,041.24Rs,37,103.60Rs, 380.5334Rs etc. respectively. On an average, gross return, net return, family labour income farm investment income and farm business income came to Rs. 96,965.28, Rs. 60,424.02, Rs. 67,676.25 and Rs.44,858.12 Respectevily. Functional analysis for resources use efficiency revealed that production process of potato is characterized by decreasing return to scale.