Economics and Constraints of Organic Turmeric at Kakching District of Manipur

Background: As the locale of the present study has high potential for production of organic turmeric, so to take the relevant measures for best exploit the resources and to create more income and employment to the rural people. Methods: The present study is based on 200 turmeric growers drawn by adopting a multistage purposive stratified simple random sampling technique from Kakching district; based on the primary data, collected through personal interview method with the help of pre-tested and well structured questionnaire exclusively designed pertaining for the agricultural year 2020-2022. Result: The majority (93.00 per cent) of the respondents belonged to semi-medium land holding with an area of 2.01 to 3.00 ha, total gross return was highest (₹ 1,61,768.44/-) for medium farm size group and benefit-cost ratio was highest (2.64 : 1) for small farm size group. The major production constraint was lack of proper inputs, lack of training, lack of irrigation facility, lack of quality planting material etc.