Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
Year : 2010, Volume : 5, Issue : 2
First page : ( 51) Last page : ( 56)
Print ISSN : 2230-9047.

An Analysis of Seed Potato Marketing in North Eastern States of India

Sah Uma¹, Dubey Shantanu Kumar², Sharma J.P.²

¹Agril. Extension Section, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur-208 024 (UP)

²Division of Agricultural Extension, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012

Received:  August,  2010; Revised:  September,  2010.

Abstract

North eastern states constitute substantial share in total national potato production. Due to unfavourable climatic condition for breeder seed production in the region, the prevailing seed potato system in the region is a matter of investigation. The present was conducted among 120 farmers spread across six villages of three potato growing districts of Meghalaya and Assam states of North Eastern Region. Data were collected using semi-structured checklist supported with informal discussion. Collected data were subjected to simple statistics like average, frequency, percentage and rank. The study revealed that ‘seed from traders’ was the most important potato seed since alerted by 100% of the respondents from Assam state, while ‘awn seed’ was the source utilized by 100% respondents in Meghalaya state. Further, Bengal Jyoti and Kufri Jyoti were most preferred potato variety in Assam and Meghalaya state, respectively.

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Keywords

Seed potato, storage, north-eastern state.

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