Vol. 12, Issue 1 (2023)

Author(s):
Phadte PV, RB Hile, GR Gophane and Jamdade SS

Abstract:
For the present study, the time series secondary data on monthly arrivals and prices of coconut from the year 2010 to 2021 were utilized. The data was collected from the Goa Agricultural Produce Livestock Marketing Board (GAPLMB), Goa, its sub yards and from Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare, Government of India (https://agmarknet.gov.in/). The data were analyzed with simple statistical tools such as Growth rates, simple average, percentage were used to arrived at meaningful conclusion and fulfilling set objectives. The finding revealed that, for coconut both arrivals and prices have significantly increase over the year by 3.73 and 11.50 percent, respectively. The arrivals of coconut in GAPLMB, Goa did not showed a particular trend but it fluctuate in months, the maximum arrivals was in the month of January (7.31 lakh nuts) and Minimum during the September (3.44 lakh nut) while highest prices was observed in the month of February (8291.67/‘000’ nuts) and lowest in the month of July (7041.67/‘000’ nuts). The analysis of trend in prices of coconut in GAPLMB, Goa, revealed that, there was no observation of cyclical and irregular trend in market.