Constraints Faced by Potato Growers Involved in Potato Cultivation Activities

Potato is the leading vegetable crop in the world which occupy the top most position after rice and wheat in respect of production and consumption. In spite of this potato growers faced so many problems that affect production, marketing and consumption, therefore they want to either shift or leave the agriculture profession. Present study entitled Constraints Faced by Potato Growers Involved in Potato Cultivation Activities The pre-coded interview schedule was constructed in order to elicit information needed to obtain the objectives of the study. Multistage purposive random sampling technique was followed to select the state, district, blocks and finally respondents. District Kannauj is purposively selected as this is one of the largest potato producer districts while two blocks namely Kannauj and Jalabad were randomly selected. Two villages from each selected block i. e. Basirapur and Mahmoadpur paith from Kannauj and, Badlepurwa and Kheda from Jalalabad, selected randomly. Forty farmers from each selected village, Total sample size 160 respondents were randomly selected for final data collection. More than fifty percent respondents Always suffered with problem of fluctuation of price and, therefore, this constraint was identified as Rank I. Major constraints Always faced by maximum respondents were Unavailability of cold storage and lack of potato processing unit and thus identified Rank II and Rank III. Untimely wage payment and no employment in odd season were identified least faced constraints with Rank XIV and Rank XV respectively.