Suggestions expressed by the commercial mango growers for efficient management of their mango orchard

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to analyze the suggestions of the commercial mango growers for efficient management of their mango orchard. The study was conducted 48 villages of the Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg district of Konkan Region of Maharashtra state. The sample size of the respondents were 240 from all selected villages to analyze suggestions of the commercial mango growers. Study found that major suggestions offer by the respondents that ‘road connectivity need to be improvised’ (94.16 percent), ‘processing facility need to made available on hire basis’ (90.83 percent), ‘possibilities of designing small tools for harvesting of mango be explored’(90.00 percent), ‘promotion of location specific technology (87.50 percent), ‘research should be undertaken for increasing shelf life of the fruits’ (79.17 percent).