An Economic Analysis of Groundnut Marketing - A Study

Groundnut is one of the major commercial oil seed crop in India and world scenario. Groundnut which is also popularly known as peanut is one of the world's most popular and universal crops, cultivated in more than 100 countries of six continents. China and India are the largest producers of Groundnut. Although the USA was the third largest producer of Groundnut in the world during the mind 1990s, Nigeria became the third largest producer of Groundnut in the world as on 2002. Challakere is a backword taluk of Karnataka state. The present paper deals with to identify different agencies in the marketing of groundnut in APMC, Challakere, to study the problems faced by the farmers while marketing of groundnut and to study the viability of groundnut cropping in the study area. The paper shall be depended on primary and secondary sources of information. Leelavathi R "An Economic Analysis of Groundnut Marketing - A Study" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-1 , December 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18964.pd