• Dr.BASAVARAJ

Tumkur district is one of the districts which cultivate amount of coconut in Karnataka. The farmers who cultivate the coconut in the district have to sell the produces either directly in the market or to the merchant in the locality. Some of the farmers have their own industry where the coconut dried in the field and after that it is sold for coconut oil manufacturers. Few of the farmers have their own industry for making coconut oil. But most of the farmers sell their coconut the merchant in the local area or sell directly in the neibouring market.. Further the farmers face number of problems in cultivating and marketing of coconut in the study area. It is reported that the farmers could not able to get adequate price for the coconut in many occasions. It makes the farmers economically weak which leads to increase in the borrowings of the farmers year by year. Many farmers of coconut in the study area face similar issues in marketing the coconut cultivated. Nobody takes care of the framers problem in marketing the coconut in the study area. Hence to know the problems faced by the farmers in the study area a thorough study is to undertaken. . By the above views in mind the researcher selected the topic “A Study on Marketing Problems of Coconut with Special Reference to Tumkur District” for her research work. This study is based on both primary data and secondary data. For collecting of primary data from sample respondents used structured questionnaire. Statistical tools like Garrett ranking method and chi-squre test, rank correlation are used for analysis of data.

Agriculture, economic upliftment, Marketing Problems of Coconut

"Analysis of Marketing Problems of Coconut Growers-A study with Special Reference Tumkur District, Karnataka", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 2, page no.d117-d125, February-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2302312.pdf

"Analysis of Marketing Problems of Coconut Growers-A study with Special Reference Tumkur District, Karnataka", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 2, page no. ppd117-d125, February-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2302312.pdf