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Marketing of vegetables in Himachal Pradesh.

Sharma, R. K.; Sharma, S. K.; Thakur, R. K.;

Indian Journal of Agricultural Marketing Year: 1995 Vol: 9 Issue: 1 Pages: 44-50 Ref: ref.

1995

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Marketing of vegetables in Himachal Pradesh.

 

This study: (1) calculates the postharvest losses during storage, transportation and marketing of major vegetable crops; (2) quantifies the factors affecting marketed surplus; and (3) investigates the problems cultivators face in storing, transporting and marketing vegetables. A sample of 60 farmers from Solan and Kandaghat blocks of Solan district, Himachal Pradesh, India, was selected. The study shows that the highest percentage of losses occurred during assembly and transportation for tomato and capsicum, whereas assembly and market operations caused major losses for beans and peas. Increased production with minimum losses are important factors for increasing marketed surplus. Costly wooden boxes, time-consuming manual grading, distant markets, high transportation charges, malpractices in the market and lack of market information were the major problems faced by growers.