Reasons for decline of orange orchards in Amravati district

Abstract

The present investigation entitled “Reasons for decline of orange orchards in Amravati District” has planned and conducted with the general objectives to study the extent of decline in area under orange and exploratory design of social research was used in the present study. In all, 150 farmers were selected by personally interviewing the respondents with the help of structural schedule. Collected data were carefully examined, classified and tabulated. Frequency, mean, standard deviation, correlation and multiple regression analysis have been summarized as below. Findings reveled that majority of the respondents were of young and old age group and most of the respondents were educated upto high school level. Near about half of the respondents were in medium land holding range between 4.01 to 10 hectares. Whereas, majority of the respondents had high family size. Nearly 88% of the respondents had medium size of orchard. Most of them had their annual income ranging from Rs. 1, 00,001 to Rs. 1, 50,000/- and were belonged to lower middle category of socio-economic status. However most of the respondents had low source of information and most of the respondents had well as the sources of irrigation and most of the respondents had high experience in orange cultivation. The per cent decline area under orange cultivation was 36.96 per cent. Majority of the respondents 67.34% had high decline in area of orange orchard, followed by 29.33% of the respondents had moderately decline in area under orange orchard.