TAILIEUCHUNG - Marketing practices and marketing efficiency of organic minor millets in Tamil Nadu, India

The study was conducted in Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu to examine the cost and returns of organic ragi production and to analyze the marketing efficiency and constraints in marketing. Certified organic farmers who got group organic certification from TNOCD were contacted for the study. Cost of cultivation and returns were assessed using CACP approach and marketing channel was identified. Price spread and marketing efficiency was assessed using Acharya’s approach for the identified marketing channel. The cost of cultivation of organic ragi was Rs. 27137 per ha, of which the share of family labour alone 27 per cent and the share of human labour was nearly 52 per cent. Net income per ha was . Price spread was higher in ragi cookies (79%) and lower in ragi flour (41%). The farmer’s share in consumer price was higher in ragi flour (59%) and lower in cookies (21%). Marketing efficiency was higher in ragi flour than cookies and sprouted flour. Hence farmers should be educated on improved varieties for getting higher yield. Processing units may be supplied to the Organic Farmers Association at free of cost for value addition so as to increase the farmer’s net income and to provide additional employment. Self-help Group or Joint Liability Group’s may be organized among the members so as to start up new enterprises relating to value addition and opening retail outlets on their own to get sustainable income. | Marketing practices and marketing efficiency of organic minor millets in Tamil Nadu, India

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• Organic farming
• Marketing channel
• Price spread
• Marketing efficiency
• Organic minor millets
• Conventional farming
• B C ratio
• Organic farming over conventional farminga
• Economics of organic farming
• Conventional farming meanwhile comparison
• Suggestions of certified organic farmers
• Practicing organic farming
• Western zone of Tamil Nadu
• Organic inputs
• Suggestions and Trainings
• Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L
• Organic farming module
• Different organic sources
• Higher grain yield
• Land configuration
• Nutrient content
• Carrot in organic farming
• Various organic sources on yield
• Village panchayat
• Organic farming practices
• Adoption level
• Farmers regarding organic farming practices
• Practice the organic farming
• Attitude of farmers
• Sample size
• Farmers towards organic farming
• Organic cultivation practices
• Organic paddy farmers
• Organic paddy farming
• Reliability score
• Validity score
• Paddy farming
• Maize organic farming
• Organic carbon
• Comparison of nutrient content
• Protein content in varieties
• Different types of maize
• Mean score
• Farmers practicing organic farming
• Hill region
• Constraints faced
• Organic farming and its advantages
• Extent the adoption
• Farmers in crop production
• Crop production
• Organic farming practices by farmers
• Marginal farmer
• Measure the attitude
• Marginal farmers on organic farming
• Non sample area
• Rice varieties
• Tarai region
• Organic farming in Tarai region
• Rice varieties for yield
• Head dry matter
• Antioxidant parameters
• Quality of cabbage
• Organic farming practices on yield
• Agro ecosystem
• Constraints analysis in adoption
• Adoption of organic farming
• Irrigation storage structures
• Integrated farming
• Benefit to cost ratio
• Organic waste
• Farming community
• Impact of integrated farming system approach
• Soil health
• Healthy food and environment
• Healthy food
• Traditional organic farming methods
• Biological properties
• Organic and conventional farming
• Changes in biological properties
• Soil through organic
• Eco friendly conservation
• Environmental degradation
• Organic manure
• Ex post facto study
• Policy and development
• Sustainable and organic rice farming
• Rice farmer groups
• Daucus carota L
• Phenolic acid
• Sugar and acid components
• VNU Journal of Science
• Assessing sediment ecological quality
• Organic shrimp farming ponds
• Comparing the shannon wiener
• Shrimp farming ponds
• Alternative farming
• Dioscorea spp
• Tuber quality
• Soil quality
• Organic farming technologies in greater yam
• Sustainable agriculture
• Towards sustainable agriculture
• Enhancement of soil fertility
• Status of organic farming
• Green revolution
• Farmer suicides
• Vermi compost
• Indian prospective
• Organic agricultural land
• Organic nutrient management
• Yield and economics performance
• Economics performance
• Green gram as influenced
• Nutrient management