The study examined the constraints analysis of shrimp farming in the coastal belt of South Gujarat. From the South Gujarat region, mainly four districts, namely, Valsad, Navsari, Surat, and Bharuch districts, were selected purposively to study the socio-economic characteristics of shrimp farmers. From each district, two talukas were selected purposively according to the availability of shrimp farmers. After that, two villages from each taluka and from each village, fifteen farmers were selected by simple random sampling (SRS) method. Thus, a total of 240 shrimp farmers were selected for this study. The present study was the vital work in this area which revealed that the disease problem was ranked as the most crucial constraint followed by poor quality of seeds. Feed cost was a third major constraint as reported by shrimp farmers in the study area. The other important constraints identified in the study area were lack of credit, lack of co-operation among shrimp producer’s, lack of technical guidance, involvement of middleman, lack of quality control agencies, lack of government support and losses due to theft that resulted in low productivity etc.
There were three different marketing channels found in Navsari district of Gujarat.The Channel-III was more efficient compared to channel-I and Channel-II because producer share in consumer rupee was more (67.45 %) in Channel-III, then Channel-II (56.74%) and Channel-I (54.28%) in Navsari market. Production constraint Majority of the turmeric growers in the study area expressed the problem of high cost of seed materials (Rhizomes) was the major constraint followed by unavailabilityof seed materials (Rhizomes), unavailability of labour in time, high cost of labour, Inadequate sources of finance, damage due to unfavourable condition of weather, lack of technical knowledge about the crop and lack of irrigation facilities. Marketing constraints Majority of turmeric growers in the study area expressed the problems of fluctuation in market price was the major constraint followed by low price, high cost of transportation, absence of regulated market and market intelligence, lack of storage facility, lack of Grading facility and delayed payment.
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