Constraints and suggestions perceived by the potato growers in use of cold storage facility

Abstract

Potato cold storages are one of the important links between producers to consumers that create another choice of market and price discovery. Cold storage is very important to reduce post-harvest losses. The cold storage facilities for potato crop are available to the potato growers. The potato growers are utilizing the cold storage facilities. There are number of factors which affect the potato production, but post-harvest management is very important factor. Without proper storage facility farmers faces many problems. By using cold storage facility farmers may face some constraints and they do have suggestions to overcome the constraints face by them. Considering these facts, constraints and suggestions perceived by the potato growers in use of cold storage facility were studied. The potato growers were asked to express the constraints and suggestion. Frequency and percentage of each constraints and suggestion were the computed and ranked accordingly. Major constraints faced by the potato growers were, inadequate transportation (85.00%), keeping charges high (81.67%) and inadequate finance (74.67%). Whereas, Cold storage owner should provide transportation and insurance facility were the most important suggestions given by the potato growers.