Protected cultivation in Maharashtra: determinants of adoption, constraints, and impact$ Prakash P.1*, Kumar Pramod2, Kar Amit2, Kishore Prabhat3, Singh Awani Kumar2, Immanuel Sheela1 1ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala695 017 2ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi110 012 3ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi110 012 *Corresponding author: prakashiari@yahoo.com
Online published on 8 April, 2022. Abstract Under the National Horticulture Mission, protected cultivation is practised in the Pune and Nasik districts of Maharashtra. The cost of protected cultivation of rose and capsicum is over 300% of the cost of open cultivation; the gross return is 250% and net return 190%. Adoption is influenced by age, education, household income, landholding size, and distance to market. The high capital investment and cost of planting materials, and the incidence of pests and diseases were major constraints to adoption. Farmers will continue to adopt protected cultivation depending on their risk-bearing ability and government support. Top Keywords Economics of protected cultivation, Technology, Adoption index, Horticulture crops, Impact, Principal component analysis, Tobit regression, Garrett’s ranking. Top |