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Performance Analysis of South-Indian Mushroom Units:Imperative Policy Implications for their Preparedness for Global Competitiveness


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1 ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research, Solan 173 213, India
2 Department of Agricultural Extension, UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru 560 065, India
3 ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Zone-VII, Hebbal, Bengaluru 560 024, India
4 ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, DPS Marg, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India
 

A highly specialized six-dimensional performance index was designed to comprehensively analyse complex mushroom enterprises having components and estimates, viz. scale/size of the enterprise (4.225), infrastructure/ machinery employed (4.539), social capital indicators (4.696), efficiency indicators (6.346), good mushroom cultivation practices (5.246) and incremental expansion (3.597). Sixty edible mushroom growing enterprises of Karnataka were selected for this study which concludes that four out of six components showed poor performance. Along with an urgent need to work-out economically optimum size of mushroom units with suitable infrastructure and machinery requirements, the paper presents important policy implications for making Indian mushroom industry globally competitive.

Keywords

Global Competitiveness, Mushroom Enterprises, Performance Index, Policy Implications.
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Mahantesh Shirur
ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research, Solan 173 213, India
N. S. Shivalingegowda
Department of Agricultural Extension, UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru 560 065, India
M. J. Chandregowda
ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Zone-VII, Hebbal, Bengaluru 560 024, India
Rajesh K. Rana
ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, DPS Marg, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India

Abstract


A highly specialized six-dimensional performance index was designed to comprehensively analyse complex mushroom enterprises having components and estimates, viz. scale/size of the enterprise (4.225), infrastructure/ machinery employed (4.539), social capital indicators (4.696), efficiency indicators (6.346), good mushroom cultivation practices (5.246) and incremental expansion (3.597). Sixty edible mushroom growing enterprises of Karnataka were selected for this study which concludes that four out of six components showed poor performance. Along with an urgent need to work-out economically optimum size of mushroom units with suitable infrastructure and machinery requirements, the paper presents important policy implications for making Indian mushroom industry globally competitive.

Keywords


Global Competitiveness, Mushroom Enterprises, Performance Index, Policy Implications.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv115%2Fi11%2F2141-2146