Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2017

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF COFFEE CULTIVATORS AT SULTHAN BATHERY TALUK IN WAYANAD DISTRICT

Dr. S. Bhuvaneswari, N. A. Sumathi

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 Coffee is one of the important plantation crops of India, which is cultivated mainly in the hill tracts of South India especially in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. The coffee growers belonged to small and marginal land holding finds very difficult to feel required, fertilizers and pesticides. For examining the problems faced by the coffee cultivators, the researcher chose Sulthan Bathery taluk in Wayanad district. For collecting the opinion of the cultivators about the problems and prospects in coffee cultivation the research has used structured questionnaire. One hundred coffee cultivators have been selected through random sampling method and their opinion has been subdued into tables with using simple Percentage Analysis, Mean Score analysis, Chi–Square analysis and Henry Garrett ranking technique. From this research, 2.1 to 4 acres land possessed coffee cultivators have perceived high level of satisfaction and above Rs.4 lakh annual income respondents have high level of satisfaction than the other category of the coffee cultivators. Further, they faced major production problem is daily maintenance of coffee beans and lack of availability of quality fertilizer and pesticides. The researcher recommended to state and central government that they should support the coffee cultivators through various attractive schemes for supply the labour and initiate a research and development particularly for check the fertilizers and pesticides. 

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Dr. S. Bhuvaneswari, N.A. Sumathi, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF COFFEE CULTIVATORS AT SULTHAN BATHERY TALUK IN WAYANAD DISTRICT, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾6 | June‾2017

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