Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Gosavi Deepali and Dr. PB Kharde

Abstract:
The present study was conducted with an objective to elicit constraints faced by fruit and vegetable trainees in Ahmednagar, Sangli, Satara, Solapur, Pune, Nashik, Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra state. Main focus of any development plan of India after post independence era are the farmers. As years pass by, agriculture as an industry lost its importance by policy makers of India. With the sample size of 200, the data was collected by personally interviewing with the help of present and well structured interview schedule and by using ex-post facto research design. The statistical methods like frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, coefficient of correlation were used for analysis of data. The fruit and vegetable trainees had faced many problems such as Availability of skilled labour, high labour cost, inability to repay the loan, high initial investment, competition in the market, irregular electric supply, natural calamities, high cost of production. The present investigation has identified various constraints that occurred to fruit and vegetable trainees.