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Study on Buying Pattern and Buying Behaviour of Hybrid Castor Growing Farmers in Aravalli District of Gujarat State


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1 ASPEE Agribusiness Management Institute, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari (Gujarat), India
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The castor is an important cash crop for the India, the Gujarat is one of the leading state in castor production. The present study aims to study the buying pattern and buying behaviour of hybrid castor seeds by farmers. The study was undertaken in the five villages of Aravalli district in Gujarat. The 100 hybrid castor growers were surveyed for data collection. The snowball sampling was used to get the responses. The simple descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. From the study it was found that the acreage for castor cultivation is decreasing and farmers are shifting to more remunerative crops. The majority of respondents are having irrigation facility for castor. Majority of respondents have grown hybrid castor seeds in 4 to 6 acre. The 50 per cent farmers purchase 3-6 kg of castor seed while 40 per cent farmer purchase more than 6 kg of castor seeds last year. As far as buying behaviour of farmers is concerned, it was found that topmost factors to which farmers give preference while buying hybrid castor seed were yield potential, wilt resistance, brand image, timely availability and germination percentage of seed. More than eighty five per cent of farmers were using hybrid castor seed since more than five years, the effect of this on their buying behaviour was that they were buying hybrid castor seed mostly because of their own experience.

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Buying Behaviour for Castor Seeds, Buying Pattern for Castor Seed, Hybrid Castor Seeds, Farmers Behaviour.
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Authors

Muddasir Ahmad
ASPEE Agribusiness Management Institute, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari (Gujarat), India
Gautam Parmar
ASPEE Agribusiness Management Institute, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari (Gujarat), India
Alpesh Leua
ASPEE Agribusiness Management Institute, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari (Gujarat), India

Abstract


The castor is an important cash crop for the India, the Gujarat is one of the leading state in castor production. The present study aims to study the buying pattern and buying behaviour of hybrid castor seeds by farmers. The study was undertaken in the five villages of Aravalli district in Gujarat. The 100 hybrid castor growers were surveyed for data collection. The snowball sampling was used to get the responses. The simple descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. From the study it was found that the acreage for castor cultivation is decreasing and farmers are shifting to more remunerative crops. The majority of respondents are having irrigation facility for castor. Majority of respondents have grown hybrid castor seeds in 4 to 6 acre. The 50 per cent farmers purchase 3-6 kg of castor seed while 40 per cent farmer purchase more than 6 kg of castor seeds last year. As far as buying behaviour of farmers is concerned, it was found that topmost factors to which farmers give preference while buying hybrid castor seed were yield potential, wilt resistance, brand image, timely availability and germination percentage of seed. More than eighty five per cent of farmers were using hybrid castor seed since more than five years, the effect of this on their buying behaviour was that they were buying hybrid castor seed mostly because of their own experience.

Keywords


Buying Behaviour for Castor Seeds, Buying Pattern for Castor Seed, Hybrid Castor Seeds, Farmers Behaviour.

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