Socio-Economic Analysis of Ginger Production in Surkhet District of Nepal

Abstract

The survey research entitled 'Socioeconomic analysis of ginger production in surkhet district' was conducted during March 2019 to May 2019. The Gurwakot, Bheriganga and Awalching was selected purposefully and sample HHs was selected randomly. A total of 30 HHs were selected as sample from Bheriganga and each 25 from Gurwakot and Awalching. The data was collected through household survey (80HHs), 3 focus group discussion (FGD) and key informant survey (KII). In the sampled HHs, the percentage of male and female respondents was equal. Unavailability of enough and quality seed, Rhizome rot, Rhizome fly and trader's dominance in price determination has limited the success of ginger cultivation in the area. Out of the total landholding of 881 ropani, 46.31% was used in ginger cultivation. The average landholding of the respondents was 12.31 ropani and an average of 2.31 ropani land was used by them in ginger cultivation. Majority of the farmers used seed rhizome reserved from own production for planting materials (66.25%) in the next cycle. All the respondents used organic manure as source of nutrients. Most of the farmers practiced family labour and exchanged labour as source of labour for ginger cultivation. Only 8.75% of the respondents sold their product directly to the consumers, 38.75% sold their product to the Organic Mountain Flavour industry. 48.8% respondents got price information from collectors and 42.5% respondents were unsatisfied with price they received for their product, only 16.25% were satisfied with price. Most of the farmers did not perform Bruni extraction. The total cost of production was found to be NRs. 3,48,500 per hectare out of which cost of seed and human labour found to contribute major part i.e. NRs.1,69,860 (48.74%) and NRs. 1,25,460 (36.0%) respectively. Benefit cost analysis revealed that the B/C ratio was 1.88 on average. Thus, the ginger farming could be preferable and profitable, that could SocioEconomic Analysis of Ginger Production in Surkhet District of Nepal

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