Production and Marketing Constraints Faced by the Chinese Onion (Allium chinense) Growers in Nagaland

The present study was conducted to examine the in-depth information of the socio-economic and constraints faced by the respondents during the production and marketing of Chinese onion in the concerned place of study. The data were collected through personal interview schedule by the researcher by adopting the purposive simple random technique from one district and two blocks were purposely selected and three villages from each block were selected by random method, which has make a total of 90 respondents selected from the six numbers of selected villages. The study revealed that majority of the farmers (62.00%) belonged to the middle age group (40 to 61 years). The study revealed that majority of the respondents had small sized field (0.008 to 0.024 ha). Among the various constraints in technology adoption to production, problems due to pest and diseases, lack of irrigation facility, lack of proper market, were the major challenges. Lack of all weather roads, no support prices and no reliable sources of distant market information were the major constraint faced in the marketing of Chinese onion.