STATUS OF VEGETABLE FARMING AND ITS CHALLENGES IN CENTRAL BRAHMAPUTRA FLOODPLAIN ENVIRONMENT OF DARRANG DISTRICT, ASSAM

Sustainability of agriculture is the primary concern of the global community. There is always a concern about the food requirement for the ever increasing population. This situation become more worrisome with the present day's world reeling under several pandemics and crisis. Vegetable farming is suppose to provide assistance to maintain sustainability in agriculture as it can be incorporated with home garden and urban agriculture environment quite efficiently. In this regard an assessment for identifying the current status of vegetable farming and its challenges in Dalgaon-Sialmari Block is carried out in this paper. Being located in the central Brahmaputra Valley this region has enormous potentialities for vegetable farming and its marketing. Several parameters like socio-economic status of farmers, overall educational status, healthy and wellbeing of farmers, land-use statistics, local market is taken into consideration for the study. The study is a synthesis of previous literarture, reports and the data collected from 22 sampled villages. This investigation is intended to provide a future rationale for vegetable farming in Dalgaon-Sialmari Block by pointing out its potentialities.