Performance and problems faced by agricultural input dealers and participatory appraisal on opinion of farmers about input dealers.

摘要

The study was conducted during 2005-06 in Eastern Dry Zone of Karnataka, which covered three districts, namely, Kolar, Tumkur and Bangalore (urban and rural districts). Being potentially an agricultural production area, large number of input dealers were running their business. Eighty dealers were interviewed personally with the help of a pre-structured schedule. The results revealed that only 22.50% were dealing with specific inputs, 77.50% were dealing with combination of inputs and 11.00% accounted for the combined business of seeds and chemicals. Difficulty to make credit available, fluctuation in market prices and lack of market were the major problems faced by the dealers.