LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Cost of Production of Grape in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu

Ms. R. Babybowna, M.A., M.Phil.
P. Veerachamy, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

Agricultural play an important role in Indian economy. It offers more employment, i.e., 70 percent. India has achieved the highest productivity of 20 tones per hectare in the production of grapes. Grape is a component in wine, juice, squash, syrup, jam, jelly, vinegar, pickles, chocolates, tartaric acid, oil, cattle feed, tannin, etc. However, the processed products, viz., wine, raisins and grape juice are the most popular products from grapes all over the world. The commercial production of grape commenced only after the import of varieties like Thomson seedless, Kishmish, Chorni, Beauty seedless, etc. These seedless varieties overtook the seeded varieties production tremendously.

Currently grape cultivation in India has reached to the extent of 50000 ha, with an annual production of 10-12 lac metric tons. Out of the total production, 87% of the produce is consumed as table grape while 10% is dried and produced for raisin, two percent for juice and one percent for wine. Dindigul is one of the most important grape producing districts in Tamil Nadu. The district’s soil and climatic conditions are highly suitable for grape cultivation. Hence, grape cultivation has increased spontaneously with an area of 1195 hectares in 1996-97 to 1709 hectares in 2003-04 and 2684 hectares in 2009-2010. Therefore, this paper attempts to analyse determinants of grape production, factors affecting the grape cultivation and also suggests how to improve the productivity of grape in the study areas.

The study found that in the case of farmers cultivating High Yielding Varieties, r value indicated 78.41 percent of variation in yield caused by five explanatory variables. Labour cost, fertilizer, pesticides and capital flows were found to be statistically significant at 5 per cent level. The capital flows had a greater influence on the determination of yield, by the variables such as labour cost, fertilizer and pesticides.

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Introduction

Grape production is one of the most important commercial fruit crops of India which contributes to the maximum share of the export from India to other parts of the world. The world total grapes production is estimated at 16 per cent of total fruit production and about 78 per cent of grape is used for edible purpose; nearly 17.20 per cent is dried for raisin production while 1.5 per cent is used for juice and 0.5 per cent for manufacturing wine. Though this fruit is processed to the largest extent compared to other fruits in the country, the processing of this fruit in India is much less than the processing found in the traditional grape growing countries in the world, where more than 80 per cent of the produce is processed in the form of wine, raisin and juice. Apart from raisins, the various forms of the processed products that could be prepared from grape or may have grape as a component are wine, juice, squash, syrup, jam, jelly, vinegar, pickles, chocolates, tartaric acid, oil, cattle feed, tannin, etc. However, the processed products, viz., wine, raisins and grape juice, are the most popular products from grapes all over the world (Desai, 2007).

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Ms. R. Babybowna, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar 608 002
Tamilnadu
India
murugesancrd@yahoo.com

P. Veerachamy, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar 608 002
Tamilnadu
India
eveerachamy_p@yahoo.co.in
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