Farming challengesin himachal pradesh a study of jubbal& kotkhai block of district shimla

Author: 
C.Vishal

Production of crops depends upon multiple factors and all these factors if it works well it enhances crop production but if it notit creates the problem for the farmers, therefore, reduce the production. From the study onewillexamine different farming conditions and therefore tryto understand the level of challenges being faced by the farmers. Study was conducted in District Shimla (2017-18) which constitutes 10 Block and has selected Jubbal and Kotkhai Block for our study and after analyzing the data of 200 Farming Households of different farm size it came to our picture that most of the farmers across all farm size are facing problems related to animals, hailing, water, storage facility, skill labour, High transportation, material and labor charges but on the other hand farmers are satisfied with the plant varieties, packing material, market intelligence, transportation facility, quality of manures/fertilizers/medicines and road conditions.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2020.22171.4368
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