Vol. 12, Issue 1 (2023)

Author(s):
More GB, Koshti NR, Mankar DM, Bharad SG, Khobarkar VK and Walke RD

Abstract:
The study was conducted in the Western Vidarbha region of Maharashtra State. Total five districts were selected from the Vidarbha region, one tahsil was selected from each district for the study, i.e., Patur tahsil from Akola district, Morshi tahsil from Amravati district, Jalgaon (Jamod) tahsil from Buldhana district, Risod tahsil from Washim district and Babhulgaon tahsil from Yavatmal district were selected purposively, which is having the highest plantation of custard apple. A list of villages from each selected tahsil having maximum number of custard apple growers have been obtained from the concern departments. From the list, only top four villages having highest number of custard apple growers were selected. A list of custard apple growers has been prepared as respondents having more than 7 year old custard apple orchards. From the total 20 villages, a total 200 custard apple growers were selected by using proportionate random sampling method. The study was conducted to know the managerial efficiency of custard apple growers in western Vidarbha region. The finding of the study revealed that in various aspect of managerial efficiency viz., to know the ability in planning, to ascertain ability to mobilize resources for custard apple production, efficient use of resources for custard apple production, ability to make rational marketing custard apple, ability of value addition in custard apple. In all, more than half of the custard apple growers had medium level 64.00 percent of overall managerial efficiency.