Profile characteristics of Mandarin growers in Vidarbha region of Nagpur district, Maharashtra state

The present study was conducted in the Vidarbha region of Nagpur district, Maharashtra state in the year 2023-24. The study focuses on the profile characteristic of mandarin growers. An exploratory research design of social research was used for the present study. The study was carried out in three tahsils namely Kalmeshwar, Narkhed and Katol. The tahsils were selected purposively due to highest mandarin cultivation. From each selected tahsils four villages were selected randomly and from each selected village 10 mandarin growers were selected randomly thus contributing to total 120 respondents. Collected data were classified, tabulated, and analyzed by using statistical methods such as percentage, frequency, mean and standard deviation. From the data of 120 respondents it was revealed that, over half of the respondents (53.33%) belonged to middle age group,(30.00%) of the respondents were educated upto secondary school, Majority (78.33%) farmers did not received any training, Upto (40.00%) farmers have marginal size of orchard, over half of the respondents (57.50%) farmers have medium age of orchard, higher proportion of the respondents were having medium size of family, majority (41.66%) of the farmers have semi-medium size of land holding, majority (26.67%) of the farmers had mandarin income in range of 1.01 to 2.00 lakhs rupees, most of the respondents (25.83) had annual income above 4.00 lakh rupees, majority of them (62.50%) had medium level of economic motivation, (64.16%) had medium level of market orientation and (52.50%) had medium level of risk orientation, respectively.